Aunt; was Re: "Authentic pronunciation" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Tom Zurinskas]

I have a sneaky suspicion that teachers are behind the awe-dropping.  Here is one confirmed instance of it.  The idea is to make the letter "o" consistently said as "ah".  This goes for moss, loss, toss, boss, cost, frost, dog and others.  But it's become more.  It's become a curse on the "awe" sound altogether, and it's been dropped from their foenubet (set of phonemes in a language), replaced by "ah".  Not right.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling




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> Poster: Herb Stahlke
> Subject: Re: Aunt; was Re: "Authentic pronunciation" (UNCLASSIFIED)
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> I remember a teacher in the third grade in Waltz, MI, 25 miles S of
> Detroit, telling us the hog, log, fog, and dog should all be
> pronounced with the vowel of "cot." We new better.
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> Herb
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> >> > At 9:09 PM -0400 10/6/10, Barbara Need wrote:
> >> > >I was corrected by my fourth grade (MA) spelling teacher. I have just
> >> > >moved from near Cleveland and said that we had gone out to visit my
> >> > >[Ant] and she asked me if I meant the little black insect and I said
> >> > >no, my mother's sister, and she said, you mean your [Ont] (low back
> >> > >rounded vowel). Of course, I meant nothing of the sort. Just one more
> >> > >contribution to my decision NOT to adopt the accent of the Northern
> >> > >Shore.
> >> > >
> >> > >Barbara
> >> >
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