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Sin Jeong-hun
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:48 pm
Post subject: Behind sounds like [bahaind] |
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All the dictionaries I've looked up, showed [bihaind] as the
pronunciation of the word "behind". But when I watched CNN news of
other American TV programs it just sounds like [bahaind] to me. At
first, I though this pronunciation is some kind of dialect. But then
I've found too many people pronounce it so to be a dialect.
Is this a new American pronunciation? Is this a formal pronunciation?
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:36 pm
Post subject: Re: Behind sounds like [bahaind] |
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Sin Jeong-hun wrote:
| Quote: | All the dictionaries I've looked up, showed [bihaind] as the
pronunciation of the word "behind". But when I watched CNN news of
other American TV programs it just sounds like [bahaind] to me. At
first, I though this pronunciation is some kind of dialect. But
then
I've found too many people pronounce it so to be a dialect.
Is this a new American pronunciation? Is this a formal
pronunciation? |
It's not new, or only American; but, yes, the dictionary version is
more formal. My impression is that even many careful speakers, in all
English-speaking countries, will also use the "bahaind"
pronunciation, or something close to it, in some situations. The same
applies to "beside" and other "be-" words.
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Mike. |
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Don Phillipson
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:06 pm
Post subject: Re: Behind sounds like [bahaind] |
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"Sin Jeong-hun" <typingcat@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1129718911.056743.307940@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
| Quote: | All the dictionaries I've looked up, showed [bihaind] as the
pronunciation of the word "behind". But when I watched CNN news of
other American TV programs it just sounds like [bahaind] to me. At
first, I though this pronunciation is some kind of dialect. But then
I've found too many people pronounce it so to be a dialect.
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Pronunciation and dialect are two different things.
Pronunciation concerns how a person says a particular
(standard) word. Dialect is the use by a group of people of
particular non-standard words or non-standard grammatical
constructions.
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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