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Nope, just yanking your chain because you're being dour. There's nothing wrong with being helpful or with being accurate, both are commendable.
That said, I got the impression you were working awfully hard and wanted to make sure you were having fun.... not forced into a stance where you had to work hard. If I was right, lighten up, have fun, carry on. If I was wrong, then my apologies and as you were. ![]()
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I've always explained the phonemes in squirrel to be the result of the voiced open consonant R having an influence on the vowel sound preceding it. Among other results this makes fir a near rhyme with fur. I can feel my throat articulating more widely open with fur, but the difference between the two in most ordinary or rapid speech is pretty subtle.
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But I guess they spell it differently in Ohio. Spelling is something that we take quite seriously here in Pennsylvania. Especially if you live in Conshohocken. ![]()
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AE: Stur-rup BE: Steer-up Quote:
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hurry sounds like h-u-rry (open U) while furry sounds like fir-ry (a true er sound).
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It's reasonably close but IIRC the vowel is closer to the short vowel in "hit":
BE: Sti-rup Note that the r is doubled in the spelling; doubled consonants often follow a short vowel. So BrE pronounces "stirrup" more or less as it is spelt, whereas AmE has a somewhat different pronunciation that appears to be based on the pronunciation of "stir". (Based on that, I guess one could also argue that the AmE pronunciation follows the spelling.) Quote:
I find the hurry-furry merger to be quite interesting from a linguistic point of view because it is one of the few vowel mergers that seems to create no homophones.
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Hurry rhymes with curry
Furry rhymes with blurry Of course this assumes the AE pronounces curry and blurry the same way BE does ![]()
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We have to go back, Kate!
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mmmm......curry......hurry up with the curry.....
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All four of those words rhyme.
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[quote=xoxoxoBruce;323876]Nope, just yanking your chain because you're being dour. /QUOTE]
ooh, that's a good mispronounced word! "dour"-- like "do-er" not like flour.
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In British English, Furry and Blurry have pretty much the same vowel sounds as Early.
but Flurry is pronounced like Curry and Hurry. Then, just when you thought you were getting it, there's the other Furry which does rhyme with Hurry. The Helston Furry -a dance. Is all this getting anyone in a fury? ![]() For the curious, Fury in British English rhymes with "FuckthisforagameofskittlesI'moffdownthepubforabevvy" Perhaps respelling is the answer? ![]()
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Everyone in Britain said I said "emu" wrong in a way that made them laugh.
I saw saying "E-moo" It was supposed to be "E-myoo" |
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We have to go back, Kate!
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yup. Like Duty. You guys say Dooty (or...Doody) I think. Whereas for Brits, it's Dyooty
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