early c20 /ɑː/ - part 5
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| credit: Routledge |
Here's my list of <-auNC>-words again because I wanted to add what Daniel Jones in the 1st edition of his English Pronouncing Dictionary of 1917 records as pronunciations of these words.
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| item | EPD1 |
| aunt | ɑːnt |
| craunch | -- |
| daunt | dɔːnt |
| draunt | -- |
| flaunt | flɔːnt |
| gaunt | ˈgɔːnt |
| gauntlet | gɔːntlɪt |
| graunch | -- |
| haunch | hɔːntʃ |
| haunt | hɔːnt |
| jaunce | -- |
| jaunder | -- |
| jaundice | ˈʤɔːndɪs [ˈʤɑːndɪs] |
| jaunt | ʤɔːnt |
| launce | lɑːns |
| launch | lɔːntʃ [lɑːntʃ] |
| laund | -- |
| laundry | ˈlɔːndrɪ [ˈlɑːndrɪ] |
| maunch | -- |
| maund | -- |
| maunge | -- |
| naunt | -- |
| paunch | pɔːntʃ |
| raunce | -- |
| raunch | -- |
| staunch | stɔːntʃ [stɑːntʃ] |
| taunt | tɔːnt |
| vaunt | vɔːnt |
Forty-six years later than his first edition, in 1963, in the last EPD he was responsible for, DJ still kept the /ɑː/ subvariants of jaundice, launch and laundry but by then he had added "rarely" to the first of them. In his full revision of 1977 Gimson also kept them but qualified them all with "rarely" The Roach et al era has very reasonably dropt them all. In America the /ɑː/ forms for them are no dou·t mainly neology rather than survival.
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