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These are part of a whole range of expressions NP + PP. I'm guessing that you'd reject at least some of these possible plurals: attorney generals man-at-arms lady-in-waitings man of Gods Man in Blacks punch in the noses It's not very surprising that over centuries, lexicalized NP+PPs may be reanaly...

How do you pluralize "father-in-law" and other "X-in-law" words? Dictionaries say the plural is "fathers-in-law", but I say "father-in-laws".

I have heard some people use the abbreviation "bday" for "birthday" in speech. It always sounds strange to me when used in speech.

I once knew someone who lacked the pin-pen merger in their speech, but they pronounced "again" to rhyme with "win". In the opposite direction, I once heard someone who lacked the pin-pen merger who pronounced "since" with the DRESS vowel sounding exactly like how they w...

I just looked up "stint" in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary and if the scroll down to the medical dictionary it says "variant of stent".

How did the word "library" get the meaning that it has in English? In every other European language with a similar looking and sounding word, it means instead what we call a "book store" or "book shop".

I pronounce "Halloween" like in "hallow". The other pronunciation may have originated by analogy with "hollow", although the word "Halloween" has no etymological relation to "hollow". In cot-caught merged varieties, it may also result from spelling ...

I pronounce "Halloween" like in "hallow". The other pronunciation may have originated by analogy with "hollow", although the word "Halloween" has no etymological relation to "hollow".

How do you pronounce?

"maintenance"
"broccoli"
"grocery"
"camera"

I have medial schwa elision in all of those.

How do you pronounce "cabinet"? I pronounce it with two syllables "cab net". Interesting. I could vision such an extreme reduction of unstressed vowels, but I wouldn't expect it in "cabinet". If I were to reduce the second vowel that much, I think it would still be thr...

How do you pronounce "cabinet"? I pronounce it with two syllables "cab net".

The words "tomorrow", "borrow", and "sorrow" likely resisted the shift from the LOT vowel to the NORTH vowel for most Americans that occurred in words like "forest" and "horrible" because the resulting vowel would be really close to the last vowel in...

I pronounce "sorry" like "sari".

What about:

"sorrow"
"tomorrow"
"borrow"

Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 8:35 pm Are "yeah" and "nah" the only examples of the TRAP vowel in absolute-final position?

There is "baa" which can be said with the TRAP vowel as well as with the PALM vowel.

I have DRESS in "yeah" and can have either PALM or TRAP in "nah". Since I have the cot-caught merger, I can also write the pronunciation with the PALM vowel as "naw".

My favorite affirmative is [ja(ː)] which I write as yah or ja depending on what mood I'm in and how certain I am that the reader won't read the ⟨j⟩ as /dʒ/. I don't write it as ya though, even though some people do, as ya to me signifies [jə(ː)], which of course is a reduced version of you . I don'...

Yeh.

Does anyone not like it when people write "yeah" as "yea"? I'll see people write "yea" when they mean "yeah". "Yea" is a different word with the same meaning as "yeah", but a different pronunciation. "Yea" is pronounced like "...

How do you pronounce?

"length"
"strength"
"penguin"
"Jenkins"
"ginseng"

Does anyone ever pronounce "ewe" as "yo"? Dictionary.com lists this as a possible pronunciation of "ewe", but I have never heard it. Not that I hear the word "ewe" much to start with.