Re: Cloakroom

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
>> On 14/05/08 08:51:56, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>>  > Is "draw" for "drawer" a standard Aussie spelling?
>>
>>  I doubt it. It's a spoken word though, almost never written down, so
>>  I've got no internalisation of its spelling. Easier to spell weird and
>>  wacky linguistics terms like "uvular" or "pharyngeal"...
>
> Well, IML it's pronounced /drO`r\/, an exact rhyme with "door" (just
> insert the extra /r\/!), so the spelling is more intuitive. But I do
> hear /drO/ and even /drA/ (my pronuncation of "draw") from the
> occasional non-rhotic countryman.
It's an exact rhyme with "door" for me too ;) although it's closer to
"jaw" with an extra /r/. Also rhymes with "paw, poor, sure, shore, Shaw,
your, you're, yaw, yore". Lots of ways of spelling that sound. As well
as some involving "l".

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Tristan.