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Here's the phrase: "Indeed, a story could be described as something that is withheld."
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
weakform of something
In LPD3 the pron of something as /sʌmɪŋ/ is described as casual; EPD18 doesn't indicate any weakform for it. Paul Carley with his truffel-spotting ears discovered a recent sample of this weakform. It was used by the philosopher etc. Raymond C. Tallis
in a BBC Radio 4 speech titled "The Waiting".
Here's the phrase: "Indeed, a story could be described as something that is withheld."
Here's the phrase: "Indeed, a story could be described as something that is withheld."
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Lovely. Keep them coming. Note that this is hardly a speech tempo effect, he's speaking very carefully. For the same reason it's not "careless". I'd guess this is his regular pronunciation, especially if it's spontaneous. There's a similar example in Swedish, the word naturligtvis (naturally), usually quoted in Swedish phonetic literature as [na'tʉ:s] with two syllables instead of four, as an example of speech rate effect. I've only heard it once, on the radio, a lawyer who was speaking slowly and deliberately.
ReplyDeleteI quite agree: It*s careful speech throughout and it's scripted.
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