atw: Re: Particular past tense (now O.T.) - Branching off again...

Relax James,
It is just the imprecise speaker changing pronunciation to include a
dipthong.
I remember my French teacher complaining that most students in the class
used the English dipthong style when speaking French.
We were allowed to use it in the less precise Quebec accent. We studied that
for a short while following his trip to Quebec.

Unless the pronunciation is so bad that you cannot understand or are
mistaken, I think you just have to live with it.
Bob T


On 4/27/07, James Hunt <jameshunt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Ah, that was fun - threads like this always seem to bring out the
folks who resent that the usage of the unwashed masses is what
determines the shape of the language... :-)

On a slightly different topic: I have noticed recently that the
pronunciation of the word "known" is changing to something like "no-
uhn" [substitute schwa symbol]. I first picked it up in commentaries
by Michelle Grattan on the ABC, but once I noticed it, it seemed to
be everywhere. The estimable/execrable Phillip Ruddock does it too.
The phenomenon of an intrusive, unwritten schwa sound occurs with
other words as well.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is it important? Should we adjust our
spelling checkers?


JH
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