Zompist Bboard Again

Weird thing, but I seem to remember the generic exclamation of fear/pain/etc, "aaaaaahhhhh," being consistently pronounced [æ:::] when I was a kid, but being much more often [ɑ:::] now. Or at least closer to it.

I think cot/caught is regional, not temporal. I will try to test this on my nieces at Easter. It's becoming less regional and more temporal by the day. This is, there are dialects like that here in southeastern Wisconsin which firmly resist the cot - caught merger to this day regardless of age. The...

An interesting malapropism in a YouTube video description -

"I do not own this song, nor the image. I am fully complacent with any requests made to remove this video..."

zompist wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 4:05 pm I think cot/caught is regional, not temporal. I will try to test this on my nieces at Easter.

It's becoming less regional and more temporal by the day.

Another such word is "color," which in my speech is the only word in which [ʌl] occurs. All other potentially-/ʌl/ words are pronounced [ʊl], though a few have "uneven free variation" in which [ʌl] is also a possible (but much less likely) alternate pronunciation. I have /ʌl/ in...

Another such word is "color," which in my speech is the only word in which [ʌl] occurs.

All other potentially-/ʌl/ words are pronounced [ʊl], though a few have "uneven free variation" in which [ʌl] is also a possible (but much less likely) alternate pronunciation.

An innovative usage from 5-or-6-year-old-me. One morning I kept drinking water because it felt like I had something stuck in my throat. My dad asked why I was drinking so much water, and I replied "I have a golk in my throat." It felt like it was in the back, like where g is pronounced (bu...

How naturalistic/plausible could it be to have a morpheme that is /k/ when contained within a syllable containing a peripheral consonant but /ɣ/ elsewhen? example: mazûm > mazûğ ḫuzum > ḫuzuğ ḳurūśum > ḳurūśuğ but: rēbim > rēbik surğum > surğuk Perhaps a possible mechanism for this development: Kus...

Jonlang wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:15 am Hers's a Jon Favreau interview if you want to see what I mean.

I think he may just have an unusually dental idiolect. His /t/ and /d/ sound dental to me, unusual for most English.

2+3 Clusivity wrote: ↑Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:57 pm <album> as /'(ʔ)æl.bləm/.

.... still doesn't sound right to me without two /l/s. Sigh.

Kinda remind me of /j/ and /w/ copying across syllables in Avestan.

I have a similar thing - "only" becomes "olnly."

re: mind, above. I've never thought of "mound," but sometimes I have to stop myself from saying "remound" as a past tense of "remind." Anyway, what I was going to say: There's a distinct usage of the word "city" in Utah that is hard to describe, but I'll try t...

When I moved to Utah in 2019, I quickly noticed that people here seem to say "to stay or to go" rather than "for here or to go" when ordering food at restaurants.

I seem to be the only person who ever notices this.

anyone here besides me say hamburg to mean ground beef? is it a New England localism? Might it even be all traceable to a single supermarket chain that one day decided to trim its label just a tiny bit so they could make the text stand out more? Ground beef is either "ground beef" or &quo...

How to pronounce alveolar flap next to alveolar approximant. This consonant cluster appears in American English. I can pronounce either just fine. However, when the two are together, it becomes a difficult cluster. For example: party is pronounced [pʰɑːɹɾi] it's typically a retroflex flap in that p...

Faroese was my big fascination for a long time. Things that attracted or continue to attract me to the language: The "Englishy" rhotic (this is what first caught my attention, thank you to Jackson Crawford for casually mentioning it in a video in 2016) The many phonological peculiarities, ...

This is a spectacularly late reply, but I was reading through old posts and wanted to say that /ɚ/ does seem to cause l-breaking in my speech (pretty close to GenAm), just less obviously and less dramatically than closing diphthongs and high tense vowels. "girl" is something like [kɚᵊɫ], ...

An interesting meme has been circulating in French social media: la question, elle est vite répondue . It comes from the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VSFjyF3B5E Why is this sentence interesting? On the surface, the sentence seems straightforward, and translates to "the que...

It seems like Faroese could take a similar analysis. For skerping, you have ɔu̯ ʉu̯ > ɛ ɪ before <gv>, so maybe these should be analyzed as /ɛw ɪw/ - and then you have ɛi̯ ʊi̯ ai̯ ɔi̯ > ɛ ʊ a ɔ before <ggj>, so maybe these should be analyzed as /ej uj aj oj/. But I'm not sure if this is a workable ...

So this isn't exactly a romanization challenge, it's more of a reconstruction and romanization challenge, but I thought here would be a good place to post it, just as a bit of an experiment to see if people can figure out what has happened here. If you get the reconstruction right (it's not a lot of...

Here's an interesting one from past me that I suddenly recently remembered. Around age 4-5, I used to think the word "jaguar" was /d͡ʒægwaɪɹ/, and I would misspell it as "jagwire." Why? Because my mother has /aɪ/-monophthongization and I don't, so when I heard her say the word an...