Comments on: English IPA quiz http://nohat.net/2010/english-ipa-quiz David Friedland world Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andrew Ho http://nohat.net/2010/english-ipa-quiz/comment-page-1#comment-171 Andrew Ho Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:31:19 +0000 http://nohat.net/?p=1133#comment-171 1. jewelry 2. bud 3. knickknack (spelling?) 4. bid 5. Mary 6. bowed (in the sense of "...to the queen") 7. merry 8. baud 9. bored/board 10. marry 11. bode (or "bowed" in the sense of bent) 12. itch 13. cue/queue 14. thigh 15. booed 16. bayed 17. imbued 18. bard/barred 19. bird/burred 20. her (or Cat Town laugh "hurr hurr hurr") 21. could 22. bad 23. may 24. lie 25. into 26. bead 27. bide 28. time/thyme 29. people 30. Shawn/Shaun/Sean (and I say "shone" this way) 31. clothes 32. bed The trickiest ones were marry/Mary/merry (I pronounce those all nearly the same way), "could" (I initially thought it was "cooed"), and I find it hard to distinguish theta from barred "O," and to distinguish a lowercase alpha from an italicized, lowercase English letter "A." Also, that schwa with hook is just weird. Thanks for the quiz! 1. jewelry
2. bud
3. knickknack (spelling?)
4. bid
5. Mary
6. bowed (in the sense of “…to the queen”)
7. merry
8. baud
9. bored/board
10. marry
11. bode (or “bowed” in the sense of bent)
12. itch
13. cue/queue
14. thigh
15. booed
16. bayed
17. imbued
18. bard/barred
19. bird/burred
20. her (or Cat Town laugh “hurr hurr hurr”)
21. could
22. bad
23. may
24. lie
25. into
26. bead
27. bide
28. time/thyme
29. people
30. Shawn/Shaun/Sean (and I say “shone” this way)
31. clothes
32. bed

The trickiest ones were marry/Mary/merry (I pronounce those all nearly the same way), “could” (I initially thought it was “cooed”), and I find it hard to distinguish theta from barred “O,” and to distinguish a lowercase alpha from an italicized, lowercase English letter “A.” Also, that schwa with hook is just weird.

Thanks for the quiz!

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