Professor and chair of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at Ithaca College. Interested in language development and disorders, ASD, cognition & language.
@Deadvait @bettinamak Paneer and U.S. commercial cottage cheese are very different in texture and flavor, actually, though it’s true in India paneer is often translated as “cottage cheese”.
@ShappLing I had a student who reliably chose the wrong syllable 100% of the time. After an entire semester of individual tutoring without progress, in a rather desperate moment I suggested that she just assume whichever one she thought it was, it wouldn’t be that one, so pick another.
@lisa_b_davidson Intervocalic /t/ is flapped in GAE. And would not syllable-initial /k/ be (slightly) aspirated? I do in my dialect of GAE. But if doing narrow transcription, they should have done a flap for the /t/ if that’s the dialect being represented.
@JacquelynGill Oldest use of the term as a shortened form of “Mistress” goes back centuries, and first suggestion for its use in print was in 1901, so not invented in 1970’s.
@JamieReilly_cog @ass_deans Not so! they give me total access, so now organizing, editing, punching up, and updating the website for our program is mine, all mine.