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I want to have a good voice for TV and radio. :(

whoore.

and jenny, i guess it's because my accent is only at about 20% of it's strength from what it was 7 years ago that i forget i may still have one. when i saw my younger sister at a family event last month she told me she couldn't stand to listen to my accent (i think i was pronouncing my r's).

I don't know how I say horrid. As I sit here in the computer lab whispering "harrid... whore-id" to myself, they both sound right to me.

I got South second to midland if I said that "pin" and "pen" sound similar. The fact that I could go either way there is, I believe, entirely attributable to Jeff. Anecdotally, a WV cousin of mine thought my name was "Ginny" until we ten or eleven because he'd never seen my name written out and "Ginny" and "Jenny" sound the same coming from people with southern accents.

Malarkey.

Amanda -- malarkey, but accurate for me, at least. Since I have, after all, lived in Chicago almost all my life.

awesome. i miss those accents.

xpost- QB/WR/CB. i was actually much better on defense than offense.

I am in the black for vacation time for the first time since June! I have .26 days of vacation.

Quarterback, wide receiver, cornerback.

xpost, I meant his coach's accent

Yes, but I'm having trouble distinguishing between "whorrible" and "hawrible" myself.

The vowel sounds of American English
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/IPA/VowelChartLF.gif

"whorrible" = "or"

"hawrible" = "arrrrr"*

*pirate

bot
boat
bought

I'm suggesting (and this is what I think Webster's is doing) that the O in "bore" is not a unique sound -- it the "aw" of "bought" plus an R.

In Apocalypse Now, Brando says "the harrur", right?

i'll just call you shirley.

or something without vowels maybe. lrl.

The IPA can be used to describe any language, which is why it's handy when doing phonological transcriptions or interpreting phonological transcriptions of languages that we may or may not know. If you know the IPA and you see a transcription of a language you have no idea how to pronounce, it gives you everything you need to pronounce the word. It won't tell you what it means or how it's written (its orthography) but it will give you an idea of how to say it. You can also analyze patterns that way. It's also why it's futile to try to describe sounds as "flat" or "weak" or "wrong" or by using other vague/subjective adjectives. The IPA uses places and means of articulation to determine the differences between sounds.

So, today my old boss (who is way cool) and the two other guys I work directly with were going to go have lunch, bullshit, piss & moan, have a beer or two, etc. Well, today one of the higher-ups is in town, and co-opted our lunchtime. So, instead, we were going to lunch with my new boss, the higher-up, and a couple others. This option was slightly less appealing to me, but still, the prospect of a free lunch somewhere new was enticing.

So, I was sitting around waiting for a particularly nasty file to distill, and I heard people getting ready to go behind me. I figured they'd say "hey, let's go" when they were ready, and we'd go. Then I looked around and EVERYONE is gone. I got completely ditched! Now I don't have a clue what to do... I think I know where they went, but it's a ways away, I don't have my car, so I can't just go over there. What do I say when they get back? I'm fucking pissed about this.

How about them [sports team]?

Bot = baht
Bought = bawt

I say ARRR-nge. I draw the line at Lawrel, although I could easily lapse into it.