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 #17 (permalink) Sun Dec 10, 2006 22:42 pm Pronounciation of ju(i)ce |
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Hi all!
First I?like to thank you all for sharing your proficience to me. Second please let me tell you why I asked the initial question: It all begun with Conchita?s topic `Let?s slang? where she mentioned the expression "moo juice". Well, I think I?m right to interpret "moo" as a cow?s noise/voice (in German you would spell it like that "muh"). Now in a conversation I mentioned Conchita?s expression that way "mu djuz". My counterpart in the talk who claimed to be familar with the English couldn?t get the point. After I had explained what moo juice is he said that I had misspronounced "juice" and if I would have said "djuiz" he surely would have been able to figure out that it were slangy for "milk"! :lol: :lol:
By the way, Amy, I wonder how fruit sounds when it rhymes to newt. Is newt a real existing word, at all? I couldn?t find it anywhere.
Greetings
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| #18 (permalink) Sun Dec 10, 2006 23:57 pm Pronounciation of ju(i)ce |
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| Fan of Arabian horses wrote: |
| By the way, Amy, I wonder how fruit sounds when it rhymes to newt. Is newt a real existing word, at all? I couldn?t find it anywhere. |
Really? You couldn't find any newts at all? :shock:
Michael, I think you must be pulling my leg! 8)
Newt in dictionaries
Newt Pictures I
Newt Pictures II :lol:
Fruit and newt also rhyme with 'root'. :D
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| #19 (permalink) Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:35 am Pronounciation of ju(i)ce |
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| prezbucky wrote: |
...and in canada...
about
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"aboot" |
I don't know why everyone thinks they say "aboot" up there, or I should say down there (the Canadian border is south of where I live). Canadians don't say "aboot". There's a schwa between the B and the OO, so they really say something like [@b^wt]. (The @ is supposed to be a weaker schwa.) |
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| #20 (permalink) Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:14 am IPA |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| There's a schwa between the B and the OO, so they really say something like [@b^wt]. (The @ is supposed to be a weaker schwa.) |
Look at all the gymnastics we have to do because we can't use some of the international phonetic symbols here!
We should get some kind of prize for that! |
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| #21 (permalink) Mon Dec 11, 2006 13:37 pm IPA |
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| Conchita wrote: |
| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| There's a schwa between the B and the OO, so they really say something like [@b^wt]. (The @ is supposed to be a weaker schwa.) |
Look at all the gymnastics we have to do because we can't use some of the international phonetic symbols here!
We should get some kind of prize for that! |
I think you can post in other alphabets, but I can't, because the forum software is unfriendly to browsers and operating systems that are not Microsoft. Internet Explorer does not exist for my type of computer, so the forum won't let me post Russian, for example. Forums like this should be set up according to universal web standards, rather than to Microsoft standards, but unfortunately some web developers don't care about that. But at least I can post! |
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| #22 (permalink) Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:28 am P... like a newt |
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Hi Amy!
Hope I pulled your legs too hard. :roll:
Having had a look on the sites you advised me I feel a bit pissed like a newt/ an eft :wink: particularly when I see the avatar on the left of my posts. Hope you can forgive me.
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| #23 (permalink) Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:38 am P... like a newt |
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| Fan of Arabian horses wrote: |
| ... particularly when I see the avatar on the left of my posts. |
Yes, a very obvious case of leg-pulling... :mrgreen:
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| #24 (permalink) Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:24 pm Pronounciation of ju(i)ce |
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Sorry Amy!
I meant: I hope I haven?t pulled your legs too much, of course! :oops:
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| #25 (permalink) Tue Dec 12, 2006 16:38 pm Pronounciation of ju(i)ce |
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yes, our beloved schwa.
i haven't picked it up in canadians' renditions of "about" before. I'll listen more closely next time i'm up thar.
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