tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post7269045066746084115..comments2024-01-08T18:25:51.974+00:00Comments on Kraut's English phonetic blog: some of Ellis's central tenets - repeated and minimally amendedKrauthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11932831673529849848noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post-12973590297779699812011-01-26T11:20:27.379+00:002011-01-26T11:20:27.379+00:00Ellis was a wonderful scholar and single-handedly ...Ellis was a wonderful scholar and single-handedly braut a new properly scientific realism into the densely-populated world of amateurish commenters on matters of English pronunciation but he left his prodigious five volumes of EEP quite unrevised at his de·th. It badly lacked various kinds of reconsiderations and is a nightmare for anyone searching it. Also he was not quite free from idiosyncrasies and lapses of judgment. For example the items “Young men and young ladies' (servants, porters, mechanics etc.) 'Dangerous classes' ” are grotesque and so untypically silly that one finds it hard to credit his reputation of being a lifetime teetotaller.JWLhttp://www.yek.me.uk/noreply@blogger.com