[Ads-l] Pronunciation of Appalachia
Joe Salmons
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Tue Nov 24 23:07:25 UTC 2020
Thanks. Yeah, the fricative / affricate deal is there for sure. What’s the distinction for the trail?
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Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 5:00 PM
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Subject: Re: Pronunciation of Appalachia
I happen to have three linguist-authored pronouncing dictionaries.
Daniel Jones (1949, tenth ed.) gives /ei/
Kenyon and Knott (1953) gives /ae/
JC Wells (1990) gives /ei/
But there's a further variable, which I discovered by
accident, namely whether the 'ch' is an affricate
('church') or a fricative ('shush')
Furthermore, I find I distinguish between the place name
(Appalachia) and the trail name (Appalachian). And so does
JC Wells.
Curiouser and curiouser….
Geoff
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I don't know what the time frame is meant to be, but when I came there in
1974, /ae/ was already universal.
My /ei/ was mocked.
JL
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 3:54 PM Joe Salmons <
000008f18d0e0c45-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
> A colleague =E2=80=93 non-linguist =E2=80=93 mentioned today that he thin=
ks the
> pronunciation of =E2=80=98Appalachian=E2=80=99 has changed over time, nam=
ely toward having
> /=C3=A6/. Does anybody know of data on this? It=E2=80=99s obviously varia=
ble with a
> regional piece to the variation, but I don=E2=80=99t know about diachroni=
c change
> here.
> Thanks,
> Joe
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