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Manolo

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May 31, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/31/96
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Some of my students insist that former teachers pronounced the word
APPLE as /eipol/ instead of /aepol/.

Is their any variety of Englsih where that pronunciation occurs?


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Manolo.


Roy Lakin

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Jun 5, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/5/96
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In article <31AEA7...@redestb.es>, Manolo <tran...@redestb.es> wrote:
>Some of my students insist that former teachers pronounced the word
>APPLE as /eipol/ instead of /aepol/.
>
>Is their any variety of Englsih where that pronunciation occurs?

What happened to /&pl-/ ?

Roy (getting to grips with this ASCII-IPA thingy)

Simon Buck

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Jun 6, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/6/96
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Ysgrifennodd Manolo (tran...@redestb.es):

Some of my students insist that former teachers pronounced the word
APPLE as /eipol/ instead of /aepol/.

Is their any variety of Englsih where that pronunciation occurs?

Not that i know of, but some USAns do tend to say /'&prIk@ts/ instead of
/'eIprIk@ts/. Perhaps that is where the confusion arose.

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Iain Cummings

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Jun 9, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/9/96
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In article <4p6le1$m...@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, Simon Buck
<sj...@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes

Yep, there is.

Although it is dying out, the pronunciation /eipl/ is used in Central
Scotland to my certain knowledge. My grandmother would pronounce
*washing an apple* as /w&Sn @n epl/ the last sound /l/ is very dark.
The /e/ sound in apple is hardly diphthongised, if at all.


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Iain Cummings - ia...@cummings.demon.co.uk


Aaron J. Dinkin

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Jun 9, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/9/96
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In article <4p6le1$m...@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Simon...@Computing-Service.Cambridge.AC.UK wrote:

> Ysgrifennodd Manolo (tran...@redestb.es):
> Some of my students insist that former teachers pronounced the word
> APPLE as /eipol/ instead of /aepol/.
>
> Is their any variety of Englsih where that pronunciation occurs?
>
> Not that i know of, but some USAns do tend to say /'&prIk@ts/ instead of
> /'eIprIk@ts/. Perhaps that is where the confusion arose.

I don't know anyone who pronounces the last syllable as a schwa - I say
/'&pr@,kAts/ and other folks say /'epr@,kAts/.

帰aron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom


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