Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Omofoni americani

http://evaeaston.com/pr/homophones.html
 con la possibilità di ascoltarne la pronuncia.
air heir ere ... aisle isle I'll ...   altar alter ... ant aunt ... ate
eight
b
balm bomb ... bare bear ... base, bass instrument ... beach beech ... beat
beet
beau bow ... been bin ... beer bier ... berry, bury ... berth birth ...
bedding betting ...
billed build ... bite byte ... blew, blue ... boar bore ... board bored ...
born borne
boro borough burro burrow ... bough bow ... boll bowl
brake break ... bread bred ... bridal bridle ... buy by bye
c
cache cash ... capital capitol ... cast, caste ... cell sell ... cent sent
scent ... cereal serial
cheap cheep ... check cheque Czech ... chews choose ... choral coral
cite sight site ... close clothes ... coarse course ... colonel kernel
complement compliment ... core corps ... coup coo
d
dam damn ... dear deer ... dew do due ... doe dough ... done dun ... ducks
ducts
e
earn urn
f
fair fare ... fill Phil ... find fined ... for (unstressed) fir fur
flea flee ... flew flu flue ... flour flower
for fore four ... forth fourth ... freeze frees frieze
g
groan grown
h
hair, hare ... heard, herd ... hear, here ... heed, he'd ... hi, high
him, hymn ... higher, hire ... hole, whole ... hoarse, horse ... hour, our
i
it's its
j
Jim, gym
k
knight night ... knit nit ... knot not ... know no
l
lead n. led v.... liar lyre
m
meat meet mete ... mean mien ... moan mown ... mode mowed ... morning
mourning
n
need knead ... new knew gnu ... night knight
Nome gnome ... none nun ... not knot
o
oar or ore ... one won
p
pain pane ... pear pair pare ... peace piece ... peak peek pique ... per
purr
peer pier ... poor pore ... principal principle ... pudding putting
q
r
rain reign ... rap wrap ... read, reed ... read, red ... right rite wright
road rode ... rose rows ... rote wrote
s
sea see ... seas sees seize c's ... scene seen ... sell cell ... shone
shown
shoe shoo ... sight site cite... slay sleigh ... some, sum
stair, stare ... stationary stationery ... steal, steel ... straight strait
t
t
taught taut ... their there they're ... threw through thru
throne throne ... tie Thai ... thyme time ... to too two
u
u ewe you yew
v
vale veil ... vial vile
w
wail whale wale ... wait weight ... war wore ... ware wear where
warn worn ... way weigh whey ... what are you, what do you
weal wheel ... wine whine ... wrote rote
x
y
you yew ewe u ... your you're
z

 altar alter
Altair?
Betelgeuse Beetle juice
-- 
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(Janis Joplin)
24/09/2005 19.58.16

  con la possibilità di ascoltarne la pronuncia.
Did you ever see the poem on homophones that I posted some time ago?
GFC

 vale veil ... vial vile
vial is more often two syllables
Joe from Massachusetts

 vial is more often two syllables
It's like "jool" vs "jewel".
Bye, FB
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"Everyone should have a plane!"
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I accidentally googled google for "google" and got 604,000,000 hits.
Then I googled for "infinity" and got only 20,700,000.
Joe from Massachusetts

Berry - Bury!!!? Jee, I must have heard the word "bury" thousands of
times and yet.. it never occurred to me that it was pronounced like
that! I always thought it sounded like curry, Murray or furry. Is that
possible anyway?
I realize it's stupid, but I'm honestly amused :) I love to find out
these sort of things, hehe
CW

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I disagree.  There is a big difference between Mary and marry.  There
is less of a difference between marry and merry.
.....oh wait a minute....maybe you're right.  Perhaps they are
pronounced the same by those  Californians who speak English as a
second or third language (about 65%?)
bye
ari

 second or third language (about 65%?)
And... Californians who moved there from other States? :-)

 Isn't @r the r the r from "bird"? You have lost me.
"S*u*pport".
[...]
Bye, FB
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education?" "She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture of
respectability." "It is obviously the same person."
("The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde)

Giovanni
.......
#10 Non desiderare la roba d'altri.
#11 Fatti i fatti tuoi.
#12 Non portare obbligo.

 e hate, a questo punto?
non c'č una acca davanti? ^^

 pronunciation is [pu@].
I've *never* heard the pronunciation [pu@].  
In GB, poor, pore, pour and paw are homophones.
-- 
Mary

 possible anyway?
Nope, sorry (except maybe in some Northern English dialects).)
-- 
Mary

non c'è una acca davanti? ^^
E non c'è un'acca anche in heir?
lo mette in elenco quando dice che si può confondere (???) con air e
ere.
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Ma č silenziosa, a differenza di quella in "hate".
-- 
Mary

 E non c'č un'acca anche in heir?
No. E' come 'honest' e 'hour': l'acca non si pronuncia.
Max

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I think Mary comes from further south than I do . If by 'pu' you mean a 
sound roughly rhyming with 'too' , then I'm quite familiar with that 
pronunciation of 'poor' . Up North , poor , sewer (fogna) and doer may be 
more or less homophones . In fact , [pu@] is more or less how I pronounce it 
, though in a stronger Northern accent the separation between the two 
elements of the diphthong is much more marked .
Mike 

 elements of the diphthong is much more marked .
I don't know why I don't have Mary's message; anyway, I'm sure [pu@] was
once the traditional pronunciation of "poor". Here's an article that deals
with the evolution of RP:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/rphappened.htm
QUOTE
Changes in the mid twentieth century
Decline and disappearance of /ʊə/. Words formerly containing the diphthong
/ʊə/ have come increasingly to be pronounced with /ɔː/ instead. Thus your
is no longer /jʊə/ but /jɔː/. Poor, sure, moor, cure, tourist are often
/pɔː, ʃɔː, mɔː, kjɔː, ˈtɔːrɪst/. My survey figures for poor showed that
when we group all ages together /pɔː/ was preferred over the traditional
/pʊə/ by a margin of 57% to 43% of the respondents; but when we look at
different age-groups separately /pɔː/ was preferred by only 27% of the
oldest respondents (born before 1923) as against a massive 81% of the
youngest (born since 1962). Words such as jury, rural seem generally to be
resistant to this change, and do not rhyme with story, choral. Rather, they
seem now typically to be pronounced with a monophthong of the [ʊː] type,
perhaps to be interpreted as a variant of /uː/. 
UNQUOTE
Anthony Hopkins in "Howard's End":
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/fb83/poor.mp3
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You may object that he's putting on an accent, but I assure you that much
as sir Anthony is good at acting, he's hopeless at putting on any kind of
accent, in my opinion.
Bye, FB
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Sono arrivato a casa.
Era da montare.
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it.cultura.linguistica.italiano)

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The "Mary-marry-merry  merger" in California and other regions is a
well-documented phenomenon. I noticed it among many of my friends from
California while in the Army. I remember one in particular, from the
Los Angeles area. I noticed it more among speakers who spoke English
as a first language. Of course, not all Californians are prone to
merge the pronunciation of these words, just as not all New Yorkers
pronounce each of these words with a unique pronunciation.
Some of my New York friends pronounce "draw" and "drawer" the same
(drawer).
Of course, we New Yorkers are very defensive when we are accused of
pronouncing "library" as "lieberry", or "February" as "Febuary".
Speakers of English as a second language pick up the local variants of
the pronunciation when they learn English, so these quirks in accent
are regional, not ethnic.
"One of the best-known pre-rhotic mergers is known as the
Mary-marry-merry merger[3], which consists of the mergers before
intervocalic /r/ of /æ/ and /?/ with historical /e?/. This merger is
quite widespread in the American West, Inland North, Midland, and in
Canada."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_r#Mary-marry-merry_merger
Joe from Massachusetts

No. E' come 'honest' e 'hour': l'acca non si pronuncia.
Ah, non ci avevo mai pensato. 
Non avevo mai pensato che fosse una regola fissa e strutturata.
Effettivamente...
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