Will Petty 🌳🌳

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[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

I don't want to be the guy who gets back from a lovely break and complains about the parking, but lord help me I am, so WHY would you do this to your beautiful high street Aldeburgh?? How can you live like this?

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@beowulf424 @ironcrakka I know that. But there's no short equivalent in Br English so people approximate it with the long vowel that we use in hard, art, etc.

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

A very happy Arsenal victory parade day to everyone but especially to this guy blasting out Dirty Diana and his parrot

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@tallinsmagna @Kamen_OH @ironcrakka It’s a semivowel, so it can be vowel or consonant. Might have been a poor choice on my part for twitter purposes. But there’s a good argument for transcribing English diphthongs with semivowels not vowels e.g. /saj/ /sej/ /saw/ not /saɪ/ /seɪ/ /saʊ/ etc

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@Kamen_OH @ironcrakka In the International Phonetic Alphabet, [j] is the second half of the vowel sound in ‘cake’

It represents the first letter of ‘yolk’, not ‘joke’

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@cleophatra_ @ironcrakka Yes it’s not exact. But we don’t have a short vowel with that quality in British English, so people reach for the long equivalent as the nearest thing

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@ironcrakka Fair. People trying to describe other people’s accents using spelling that relates to their own accent is sending me insane

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@wells_ron223 @ironcrakka Yes, they’re the same in (southern) British English

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@wells_ron223 @ironcrakka /lɑːvə/

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@JillFilipovic @Coneee You’re kidding yourself if you think they use the American pronunciation though. Of the six phonemes in the Italian pronunciation of risotto, American English shares only the /z/. All the vowels are different, plus the trilled ‘r’ and doubled ‘t’

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@ironcrakka (Although I agree it’s a deeply unhelpful way for Brits to describe pronunciation if they want Americans to understand)

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@ironcrakka They’re not hallucinating r’s, they’re just applying a different realisation of ‘r’ from yours, i.e. vowel lengthening. In the same way you’re not ‘hallucinating’ an ‘e’ when you pronounce ‘cake’ as ‘kejk’ rather than ‘ka-keh’

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@roman_prophet This is a great video on modern British pronunciation of ‘a’. At 7:10 a Mexican saying ‘taco’ is spliced into an English person saying ‘spectacular’, by way of a demonstration that they’re pretty similar https://t.co/bBM0vJ57LI (ht @GeoffLindsey)

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@John_Salisbury @ManishEarth RP isn’t common even in southern England - it’s how the queen spoke, and it’s been in decline since the 1960s. Contemporary posh people speak something different

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@visitnorthyork Sheep

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@Player0129876 @dejectedvole You are just guessing 😂

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@Player0129876 @dejectedvole How do they differ?

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@Player0129876 @dejectedvole All British pronunciations of pasta are pretty similar, no?

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@HiddenYorkshire ‘Nitch’ used to be the UK pronunciation too until fairly recently…

[Will Petty 🌳🌳 @Microlambert]

@mcamason @westtomeseta @jimbojd4 Haha no Americans do not say ‘taco’ the same as Spanish speakers. Neither do brits. They’re both different, and that’s fine cos they’re speaking English