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...another disputed point. It's said Kiwis have 11 different ways of saying "Maori," from the hackle-raising "Mayo-ree" to the correct "Mow-rri." "New Zealanders have a long way to go in terms of pronunciation," says Piripi. "Really, 200 years of occupation without achieving five simple vowel sounds is not so good." Linguist Bauer notes that Maori has adopted large numbers of English words, from motuka (car) to poti (vote), but "English speakers don't complain that Maori people say karaka instead of clock." The reason: "English is not threatened, and Maori...
Click has a slight southern accent. He drops the g’s at the end of his words, so that going becomes goin’, talking becomes talkin’. He draws out his vowel sounds. The middle ‘a’ in Atlanta, his current hometown, is drawn out slowly...
Kiernan P. Schmitt ’06 knows his humor. The English concentrator co-wrote last year’s Hasty Pudding show “As the Word Turns” (alternate title: “Vowel Movement”) and also penned the sticky and hilarious Currier House Musical, “Peanut Butter and Juliet.” Risking an offense to Conan O’Brian ’85, Schmitt took last semester off to intern for David Letterman. FM gave Schmitt a ring to hear the juicy details of J. Lo?...
...classmates are also masters of a form of low-tech communication that doesn't require batteries or microwaves. Along with about 1,800 other schoolchildren on this rugged volcanic island, Maria is a student of El Silbo, the Gomera whistle, a substitute language based on four consonant and two vowel sounds. At a time when the boom in global communications risks swamping cultures and minority languages, little La Gomera has put its tradition where its mouth is. Shaping a finger like the letter U and inserting it to one side of the mouth, the islanders learned to communicate across...
...Crimson editor, is a social studies concentrator in Adams House. His decision to spend the summer abroad had only a little to do with his distaste for Bush. He returns to the States with a flavour for the finer aspects of British life, including the wisdom that an extra vowel never hurt anyone...