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Do you think that's possible, Lazar?
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<<What about "liar" and "lyre"? Are those homonyms for you? They're not for me.>>
Those are homonyms for me, as ["laI.@`].
<<I've tried saying "lawyer" as */lA.j@`/ and it does sound closer to "liar" than my actual pronunciation /lOI.@`/, but still not the same. Maybe someone was hearing that and misinterpreted it as "liar".>>
Yeah, it's conceivable that someone with a very open vowel for the /O/ phoneme (for instance a NCVS speaker), or someone with the cot-caught merger, could pronounce "lawyer" as ["lA.j@`], which could in turn be misheard as "liar".
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<<Those are homonyms for me, as ["laI.@`].>>
That's interesting. It appears that you have r-breaking in your dialect. What about the following words:
"beer" and "freer"
"sour" and "power"
"coir" and "employer"
Do those pairs rhyme for you? Here's how I pronounce them:
beer - /bir/
freer - /fri.@`/
sour - /saUr/
power - /paU.@`/
coir - /kOIr/
employer - /EmplOI.@`/
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"Beer" and "freer" do not rhyme for me:
beer - [bI@`]
freer - ["fri.@`]
However, the other two pairs do rhyme for me:
sour - ["saU.@`]
power - ["paU.@`]
coir - ["kOI.@`]
employer - [Im"plOI.@`]
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No one pronounces "beer" and "freer" to rhyme. Likewise, everyone rhymes "sour" and "power" and rhymes "coir" with "employer".
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well lawyer and liar + Bush are similar?
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I myself have the non-rhyming pairs:
"liar" : ["La:I@`]
"lyre" : ["L@:I@`]
"beer" : ["bI:r\]
"freer" : ["fr\i:@`]
and the rhyming pairs:
"sour" : ["sa:U@`]
"power" : ["p_ha:U@`]
"coir" : ["k_ho:I@`]
"employer" : [I~:m"p_hL_0o:I@`]
>>No one pronounces "beer" and "freer" to rhyme. Likewise, everyone rhymes "sour" and "power" and rhymes "coir" with "employer".<<
You only show your ignorance by saying so. For individuals who do not have the nearer-mirror merger and who "break" tense vowels before /r/ or have centering diphthongs in places where /r/ had historically been, it is quite conceivable that "beer" and "freer" would be homophonic.
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Whatever happened to "freedom of speech," I thought we Americans love that. How come whenever someone mentions anything negative about America, you people are too quick to chew him up. Why not just open your minds and try to see things from a different perspective, afterall none of you seem to have suffered from a little prejudice, so when someone mentions it why not "shut the fuck up" and try to listen. """
Mike , you are the only American who admited that, at least on this forum.
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Because you're French, Chamonix. (Yes I've heard your accent and seen your writing mistakes in English that are typical of a nonnative). You'll always cry wolf while pretending not to be an outsider.
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To Stan
Recently, I see some "Immigration to canada" advertisements on our national newspaper, complete with the requirements and the name of Immigration consultant.
My questions are :
1. Is it urgent for Canada to get more people by Immigration ?
2. Why don't Canada ask their neighboring countries to supply them with People ? :)
3. Don't they have a program like "Birth Rate Enhancement" ?
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nobody wants to live in antartica aka Canada :) so cold to live in.
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Canada is great.Educated people in hightech society. No rednecks, no backward South.
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I say LAW [lA], LAWYER [lAj@r]
I don't change my A vowel that is I don't say LA, but LOJ@R
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Chamonix,
Old friend, good to know you're around, I can say you were missed all this while, even though I've been absent for quite some time as well. Glad to have you back.
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