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John Wells and Daniel Jones, the two greats of English pronunciation.

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This is where I regret Gimson's changes to Jones's system. Partly because, compared with ɔ, ɒ is harder to read and harder to write and less pleasant to look at. But mostly because, shortly after Gimson had chosen ɒ as his symbol, the quality of the /ɒ/ phoneme in RP began to shift - so that, by the time that Gimson's system became widespread, RP /ɒ/ was normally realised as [ɔ] and not as [ɒ]. (The long vowel shifted at the same time and is now usually [oː], or at least, nearer to cardinal 7 than to cardinal 6.) So if Gimson had stuck with the simpler, easier and prettier symbol ɔ for the short vowel, we'd have a system of writing English IPA today that would more closely approximate phonetic reality.

Isn't it more accurate, rather than saying that since the 1940s, the sound has lowered from [ɛ] to [æ], to say instead that since the 1940s, it's lowered from [æ] to [a]? Daniel Jones in the 30s described the RP vowel as midway between cardinals 3 and 4. That gives us æ, the symbol Jones used and which is anachronistically retained in many modern transcriptions. Some Americans still say [æ] but very few British people do.

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intrusive r is funny: margaret thatcher was often criticised for her intrusive r in "law and order". her civil servants nicknamed her "Laura" ( as in 'Laura Norder'). a pedantic/prescriptive swiss friend of mine is infuriated by intrusive /r/ because the pronunciation thereby differs from the spelling. i used intrusive r for decades before deliberately training myself off it and forcing myself to stop it but i still notice it in others. it doesnt bother me. in fact i quite like it. funny how you can make a sensible and smooth liaison in french (les enfants = "les Zenfants" - c'est quoi, un zenfant?)and not be excoriated but you can't in english.

for some mysterious reason my aussie friends pronounce goat as "GOYT" and no is "noy". so if there were no goat, there's "noy goyt"

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i worked as a UK bond trader in tokyo and the japanese staff there asked me to help them deal with a london trader who had a strong essex/cockney accent as they honestly couldnt understand him so i had to get on the phone line to "translate" from cockney english into my SSB/RP so they could understand. i admit i had to strain to understand him at times too and only caught some of his utterances because i grew up in greater london myself, so for a non-native speaker of english from japan it would have been impossible. he knew the problem and i often wondered why he couldnt just tone down his accent for the few seconds it took to give the tokyo sales desk a price. i dont know if he was passive-aggressive or if speakers with non-RP accents find it extremely hard to speak RP to be better understood by foreigners.

Hi! thanks for your post! Currently I use the book English Intonation by Prof J Wells. Best regards from Brazil.

I truly thank you for this! I have been lucky enough to have email correspondence with him, but I have never met him in person. I can now feel more than ever that his energy and humour are rather contageous. He was the sort of teacher I wish I had had. RIP.

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His Geordie accent sounds more like an Indian accent.

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i was once confused by a train conductor with a yorkshire accent who talked about a "dairy turn". it turned out he was trying to say "day return"

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May Allah grant you a very long life and help do more and more better jobs for the betterment of English pronunciations lovers.

Prof. John Wells, vibration of my heart.

He gives Walter White vibes

wish I could've made it, was only 6 at the time tho

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