English, as she is spoke – a guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbol, place of articulation, sound and example word created by Language Base Camp what sez:
Pronounce the words from left to right. Can you feel where the sounds are being produced and find them in the IPA chart above?
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Ha! That’s cool. I’ve a feeling I looked a bit constipated as I went through them, though.
few pints of the black stuff will sort that out for you Andy
Only if it’s Murph’s. I haven’t had a pint of that for years ‘n’ years.
my first thoughts when i looked at that graphic was that it was about beer
#MeToo.
me, too. combined with Concentration Forehead.
I really, really like this.
Béarla, which as we all know is the Irish word for the English language, finds its root in the words Béal and Rá. The literal translation is “mouth speak” because, unlike the Irish which comes from the back of the throat, it all comes from the mouth, as clearly demonstrated above just a couple of thousand years later.
thanks bertie
An bhfuil sé sin ceart?
I’d like to see a similar picture for Irish – but there is fair bit at the front of the mouth too.
Tá sé ceart. The word comes from mouth speak.
Fadó fadóm Béarla meant gibberish and the language of the Saxons was Sacs-bhéarla, literally Saxon gibberish but it then came to mean the language of the Saxons.
like athenians called foreigners ‘barbarians’ because their speech sounded like ‘bar bar bar’
Hey! Where’s my edit button? That m should be a comma.
Irish as spoken today may have moved forward but listen to TG4 or RnaG and you’ll hear it spoken from the back of the throat. Even the word Gaeilge. Most people pronounce that G as they do in Get but it’s more of a Gw sound.
Not really gw, since it’s sounded right at the back of the throat with the front of the mouth quite open.
However, now, having heard that Bar Bar Bar, Bar Bar Bar, all I have in my head is: who speaks Béarla? Bar Bar Bar, Bar Barbar Ann, hey Barbar A-a-anne…
Yeah, it’s hard to find the right way to type the start of Gaeilge. It’s really an aural thing.
deadly !
day enriched
I thought it was one of those specialized beers?