Sujet : Re: Galveston
De : me (at) *nospam* yahoo.com (Athel Cornish-Bowden)
Groupes : sci.langDate : 26. Mar 2025, 11:17:09
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On 2025-03-25 22:03:56 +0000, Christian Weisgerber said:
On 2025-03-24, Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> wrote:
It's a bit more complicated, as Geoff Lindsey points out in
_English After RP_. On the one hand, Standard Southern British has
replaced KIT with schwa in many words, e.g. the second vowel in
"foreign"
yes
and "arbitrary"
no, not for me, unless by "second" you mean "third".
From the entry in the "mini dictionary" at the end of the book:
arbitrary
Newer: /ˈɑːbətriː/
Older: /ˈɑːbɪtrərɪ/
OK. At 81 (soon to be 82) I'm clearly in the Older category. /ˈɑːbətriː/ strikes me as sloppy when I hear it.
Having lived outside the anglophone world for nearly 40 I haven't been subject to the more modern influences, and still speak as I always did.
-- Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 38 years; mainly in England until 1987.
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