[Ads-l] Heard on a re-run of The Office

[Mark Mandel]

That's schwa in the second syllable of both, isn't it? I ask bc I
pronounce  "con" [kɑn], or /kɔn/ archiphonemically. Most of its usage in my
active and recognition vocabulary is not short for "confidence (man)" or
"convict" or "contra", but for "convention", whether as a freestanding noun
or as part of the name of a convention. See "Conomastics: The Naming of
Science Fiction Conventions", Mandel 2010, ADS Annual Meeting, Baltimore.
Slides in PDF:
https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sites/www.ldc.upenn.edu/files/ads2010-conomastics.pdf
Slides with notes:
https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sites/www.ldc.upenn.edu/files/ads2010-conomastics-notes.pdf


Mark /mɑrk/ = [mɑɹk]

On Mar 4, 2018 4:14 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> _falcon_ pronounced by Rainn Wilson as the obsolescent "fall.con," instead
> of as the far more common "fal.con."
>
> I'm not alone!
>
> There's a discussion on WordReference:
>
> https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/pronunciation-falcon.1660038/
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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