[Ads-l] _beyond_
Tom Zurinskas
truespel at HOTMAIL.COM
Mon May 30 03:09:09 UTC 2016
To be consistent, the truespel converter has y-glides between consecutive vowels in words. These can also be pronounced with glottal stops or even non-stops. I think the majority form is y-glides, even if ever so slightly.See the word popularity list at https://justpaste.it/y-glides ( a double y starts a stressed syllable)
For "uh-oh" I always say it as "ut-oh", where the "t" is really a glottal stop. so it's u'-oh or in truespel ~u'oe
Tom Zurinskas, Originally SWConn 20 yrs, college Tenn 3, work NJ 33, now FL 12.The need for truespel phonetics - http://justpaste.it/truespelnow
> Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 21:29:32 -0400
> From: laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
> Subject: Re: _beyond_
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
> > On May 29, 2016, at 6:29 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> For "beyond" thefreedicitonary.com a golttal stop in place of the "y" as
> >> first pronunciation, but I hear all the speakers say the "y" in their
> >> pronunciation.
> >>
> >
> > That's surprising! Since I use the version with -y-, IMO, *that* should be
> > the primary pronunciation, needless to say. And I myself hardly ever hear
> > the pronunciation with glottal stop. I notice it primarily because I feel
> > the same way about the glottal stop in *American* English that other people
> > feel about _moist_.
>
> Mebbe so, but do you pronounce "uh-oh" or "unh-unh" (the negative one, not to be confused with the glottal-stopless "uh-huh") without one? Or do you just avoid both? (I don't have one in "beyond" and don't recall hearing it from others, but I might have missed it.)
>
> LH
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