Re: [cybalist] SV: Linking and intrusive R

>> My 'hiatus fillers' are Y and W. 'Co-operate' usually gets a W >>where
>>the hyphen is (the two orthographic Os, however. are >>different vowels).
>>For a word like 'fail', a very short Y is often >>inserted between the two
>>vowels.

Urban:

>Aren't these diphthongs? Or do you pronounce fail as two syllables, roughly
>[fejil]?

Cool. I pronounce "fail" as /fe:l~/ or even /fE:l~/ if I'm feeling lazy.
Hmm... "fall" = /fal~/, "feel" = /fi:l~/, "fell" = /fEl~/, "full" = /f@...~/.
Weird huh?

>And do you say [kou-wop-] or are you referring to the second part of >the
>diphthong in co-, which is also present before a consonant, like >in
>copartner and co-star?

"Co-op"... I pronounce it as /kO:ap/. Wait a minute, "co-operation"...
/kU"ap@...'re:Sn/... I seem to have misplaced some of my Canadian standard
diphthongs somewhere! If there's supposed to be a "w" in "co-op", for some
reason I'm not pronouncing it unless the stress is on a different syllable
and still barely so. Let's see... "co-star"... /kO:star/. Nope... /nOp/.
Sigh... /saI/.

While we're on the subject of English pronunciation, am I the only one who
pronounces "sandwich" as /'sAmwItS/?

w@...~, TAts @n^f aI-pi:-e: simbl~z AR@ mi:, fO:ks

- gl~E:n





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