Looking for common personal names like Mohammed should tell you quickly if personal names inflect for case and such. Then once you find some place names you...
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Randy Frueh
cthefox.rf@...
Feb 12, 2013 9:43 pm
My girlfriend has an interest in many 'geeky' activities: roleplaying, linguistics, ancient cultures, and other things. But she tells me that it is hard to fit...
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James Kane
kanejam@...
Feb 12, 2013 9:48 pm
As I am from New Zealand, I keep all the vowels in father, bother/cot and caught separate, so I am not useful in that respect. I have however never heard conch...
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Randy Frueh
cthefox.rf@...
Feb 12, 2013 9:52 pm
... pronunciation in my own usage. My reaction is more like "kill the mutant with fire! restore my lect to a state of righteousness!". It should be no ...
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And Rosta
and.rosta@...
Feb 12, 2013 10:19 pm
Big thanks to respondents. And also for the forbearance of everybody else. I realized as soon as I'd sent the message that I should have split statement (4)...
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Tony Harris
tony@...
Feb 12, 2013 10:31 pm
Hmm. Sob, Bomb, and Mop all definitely have the COT vowel. Sconce does too if you know what it is and how to pronounce it, otherwise it's probably /skOwns/. ...
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Daniel Prohaska
daniel@...
Feb 12, 2013 10:49 pm
<Conch> is very region specific. When pronounced /kANk/ it refers to the Creole influenced varieties of Floride, especially the Keys... AFAIK. Dan Sent from my...
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Tim Smith
tim.langsmith@...
Feb 12, 2013 11:00 pm
... You haven't been mispronouncing it! I've just looked in two print dictionaries (as opposed to online dictionaries), and they both show both pronunciations...
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And Rosta
and.rosta@...
Feb 12, 2013 11:22 pm
... This has me trawling my bookshelves in search of info on Vermontese (but without finding anything describing what you report). So for you, _father, lava,...
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Jack Steiner
darktomatogod@...
Feb 12, 2013 11:47 pm
Sadly, while this post has provided many interesting possibilities into why differing choices of lifestyle could lead to a limited female presence in the...
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MorphemeAddict
lytlesw@...
Feb 12, 2013 11:49 pm
Ah, yes, this is what I've done with Hungarian in the past. Good idea. stevo...
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James Kane
kanejam@...
Feb 12, 2013 11:53 pm
... For me there is a large difference between Mary and marry. Many Americans and Canadians that I've met mispronounce (to my ears at least) my middle name...
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Tristan
tongues+list@...
Feb 12, 2013 11:54 pm
... As is fathering done properly! (Alas that it isn't always, for either.) But back on topic: I remember making up a language with both my sisters when we...
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Randy Frueh
cthefox.rf@...
Feb 13, 2013 12:05 am
... My brother and I never quite created a language, but we had a few words of our own (for talking about things that we didn't want to share with our mother)...
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Sam Stutter
samjjs89@...
Feb 13, 2013 12:24 am
Maybe you've hit on something with the childhood play angle. Girls tend to stop playing games when they reach puberty whereas boys tend to continue to do so....
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Anthony Miles
mamercus88@...
Feb 13, 2013 12:25 am
... Na mi me'a ka ku 'ena ka voka ho Koha Elopa hi he'a. (It pleases me [schmeckt, not passt gut] that you can see the words from [European] German.). /u/ is a...
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Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Feb 13, 2013 12:27 am
... My accent (mostly Atlanta, with some childhood influence from New Orleans) fits that criterion. ... I assonate "tromp", "stomp", "honk" and some others...
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Tony Harris
tony@...
Feb 13, 2013 12:27 am
Actually "Harry" and "hairy" sound different to me too, with the first having the same vowel as "Mary" and "marry", and the second having the same vowel as...
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Tony Harris
tony@...
Feb 13, 2013 12:41 am
Sort of. Definitely father, lava, and calm have the same vowel as each other, while bother has a different vowel than those, and daughter, author, and dawn...
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James Kane
kanejam@...
Feb 13, 2013 12:56 am
... That is really surprising as for me Harry and marry have the same vowel and Mary and hairy have the same vowel which is opposite to you. Mary and hair have...
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Leonardo Castro
leolucas1980@...
Feb 13, 2013 1:34 am
... The closer a field of study is to an "exact science", the fewer females will be there. This is what should be explained....
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Leonardo Castro
leolucas1980@...
Feb 13, 2013 1:41 am
... I didn't get it. It's just the refrain of "O sole mio!" with some adaptations....
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Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Feb 13, 2013 1:48 am
In _very broad_ phonemics, these are "Mary" /meyri/; "marry" /mæri/ and "merry" /mEri/ for some people (not for me, they're all the same). In parodied...
Xhnípe’ ur xhafhayùlkha qoe khnatàKhlijha kayiimèmpai keis Khléja Khlejhayòlkha qìr xhré Saikaîxhren Éfhelìnye kus khnófheròjhwa keixhrejoring...
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Adam Walker
carraxan@...
Feb 13, 2013 4:06 am
According to my 1953 Webster's the ch pronunciation is "formerly and still by some." So it used to be a thing, but it's like totally not any more. Adam...
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Herman Miller
hmiller@...
Feb 13, 2013 4:15 am
... All -ong words have the CAUGHT vowel for me. ... I'd count only the 5 you've mentioned, but then CAUGHT would be the only "long" vowel that can appear...
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John H. Chalmers
jhchalmers@...
Feb 13, 2013 5:54 am
I grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, but have lived most of my life in either Houston, Texas or San Diego, California, though I've also lived in the Boston area (HS...
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Cosman246
yashtulsyan@...
Feb 13, 2013 5:57 am
I'm a Seattlite. I merge cot-caught but not father-bother. -Yash Tulsyan (yasht, cosman246) http://cosman246.com "Once men turned their thinking over to...
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Elena ``of Valhalla&#...
elena.valhalla@...
Feb 13, 2013 9:23 am
... except for mathematics [1]_ , where in my experience the gender balance is quite natural (~50%), but you can see a strong difference in the further career...
