Friday 7 January 2011

early c20 /ɑː/ - part 5

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.

itemEPD1
auntɑːnt
craunch --
dauntdɔːnt
draunt--
flauntflɔːnt
gauntˈgɔːnt
gauntletgɔːntlɪt
graunch--
haunchhɔːntʃ
haunthɔːnt
jaunce--
jaunder--
jaundiceˈʤɔːndɪs [ˈʤɑːndɪs]
jauntʤɔːnt
launcelɑːns
launchlɔːntʃ [lɑːntʃ]
laund--
laundryˈlɔːndrɪ [ˈlɑːndrɪ]
maunch--
maund--
maunge--
naunt--
paunchpɔːntʃ
raunce--
raunch--
staunchstɔːntʃ [stɑːntʃ]
taunttɔːnt
vauntvɔːnt

1 comment:

  1. 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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