Wednesday 7 February 2018

Trivia no. 2

Today my students were asked to pronounce several sentences. One student produced this nice variant of a sentence (but don't tell this to any animal rights organisation):
"Try not to breathe through your mouse."

2 comments:

  1. But not: "Try not to breeze through your mouse". And certainly not: /traɪ nɔt tu bri:zsru: yɔ maus/
    This seems a very selective substitution of /s/ for /θ/ and /ð/.
    I wonder what is happening here? Maybe just one random substitution, or maybe something more systematic.

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    1. He corrected himself immediately after the mouse had left his mouth.

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