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Le 21/10/2010 18:18, Arthur Reutenauer a écrit :
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<pre wrap="">I've watched "House" with pleasure for a number of years. It's taken me
until Series 5, which I'm just catching up on, to realize that House's boss
is "Dr Cuddy" not "Dr Cutty". The actors say /cuddy/ which I assumed was
American for British /cutty/.
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Indeed, I had the exact same impression :-)
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Common neutralization in American English: /d/ and /t/ are
pronounced the same in some places, namely as /<span
title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet
(IPA)" class="IPA">ɾ</span>/.<br>
You can see all those sounds nicely pronounced here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/ipa/symbols.php">http://www.shef.ac.uk/ipa/symbols.php</a><br>
And I mean <i>see</i>, not simply <i>hear</i>.<br>
Fortunately, spelling (in alphabetical writings, I mean) is
phonological, not phonetic, otherwise Unicode would implode.<br>
Yes, that's totally off-topic. Sorry Mojca. :)<br>
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Paul<br>
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