Posted on 06/01/2003 2:44:21 PM PDT by ILBBACH
I like the book-writing-guy Jean Shepherd. He wrote a story called "The Star-Crossed Romance" about a date between himself (not Polish), and Josephine (Polish). Here's a couple of lines (not used by permission at all, but probably ok in the grand scheme of things)...
ME: "From East Chicago."
SCHWARTZ: "A Polish girl? From East Chicago? Next door to you?"
FLICK: "What's her name?"
ME: "Josephine. Josephine Cosnowski."
The three of us sat silently for a long moment, each lost in his private thoughts. Already, schemes and fantasies were rushing through our respective skulls.
A list of the pronunciation symbols used in this Dictionary is given below in the column headed AHD. The column headed EXAMPLES contains words chosen to illustrate how the AHD symbols are pronounced. The letters that correspond in sound to the AHD symbols are shown in boldface. Although similar, the AHD and IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols are not precisely the same because they were conceived for different purposes.
EXAMPLES | AHD | EXAMPLES | AHD | |
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pat | boot | |||
pay | out | ou | ||
care | âr | pop | p | |
father | ä | roar | r | |
bib | b | sauce | s | |
church | ch | ship, dish | sh | |
deed, milled | d | tight, stopped | t | |
pet | thin | th | ||
bee | this | th | ||
fife, phase, rough | f | cut | ||
gag | g | urge, term, firm, word, heard | ûr | |
hat | h | valve | v | |
which | hw | with | w | |
pit | yes | y | ||
pie, by | zebra, xylem | z | ||
pier | îr | vision, pleasure, garage | zh | |
judge | j | about, item, edible, gallop, circus | ||
kick, cat, pique | k | butter | r | |
lid, needle* | l (nd'l) | |||
mum | m | |||
no, sudden* | n (sd'n) | |||
thing | ng | |||
pot | FOREIGN | AHD | ||
toe | French feu, German schön French oeuf, German zwölf |
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caught, paw, for, horrid, hoarse** | ô | French tu, German über | ü | |
noise | oi | German ich, German ach, Scottish loch | ||
took | French bon (bô)*** |
*In English the consonants l and n often constitute complete syllables by themselves.
**Regional pronunciations of -or- vary. In pairs such as for, four; horse, hoarse; and morning, mourning, the vowel varies between (ô) and (). In this Dictionary these vowels are represented as follows: for (fôr), four (fôr, fr); horse (hôrs), hoarse (hôrs, hrs); and morning (môrning), mourning (môrning, mr-). Other words for which both forms are shown include more, glory, and borne. A similar variant occurs in words such as coral, forest, and horrid, where the pronunciation of o before r varies between (ô) and (). In these words the (ôr) pronunciation is given first: forest (fôrist, fr-).
***The Dictionary uses to reflect that the preceding vowel is nasalized. In French four nasalized vowels occur, as in the phrase un bon vin blanc: AHD ( bô v blä)
As if.
I almost told him, "Gesundheit!"
Great, she's mad at me already . . . .
She must have been heavily dosed w/ radiation.
xsmommy
1/4 Polish
1/4 Ukrainian
1/2 Lithuanian
LOL! You're not supposed to let her look over your shoulder when you post, ha ha!!
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