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Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Topic Options #97070 - 03/03/03 08:33 AM Re: fun word list Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13667 would say, approximately, ‘skonn’, not ‘skunn’ and not 'skawn'. I can hear ‘skunn’ and 'skawn' in my mind's ear. I have no idea what ‘skonn’ is supposed to sound like. I am willing to entertain the notion that my mind's ear and dxb's mind's ear are not hearing 'skawn' the same way. Top #97071 - 03/03/03 09:08 AM Re: fun word list dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK Skonn, to me, has 'sco' as in Scot and a sharp 'n' on the end formed with the tip of the tongue curled up to touch the roof of the mouth rather than just behind the front upper teeth. Skawn has the lips pushed forward to make the 'aw' sound as in prawn or born. Describing on paper what you can hear perfectly well in your head is never easy and I am aware that there are conventions for doing so with wierd upside down 'e's and omegas, but I am really not familiar or comfortable with them. I should be - apologies. I should stay away from such issues! Top #97072 - 03/03/03 09:10 AM The mind's 'ere - RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/23/00 Posts: 2204 - and 'ere's the pronunciation: "Skawn" to rhyme with "dawn" "Skonn" to rhyme with "upon" As to "scunner"; in some Eng. dialects, this word means "to skin", as in to remove the skin from an animal (after you've killed it, of course !) A metaphorical usage is, "Yon stink's enough to scunner a toad!" - i.e, the stench is powerful enough to remove a toad's skin. I just can't remember in which part of England I heard this: I think it was North Midlands - Nottingham/ Derbyshire/ Staffordshire sort of area. Top #97073 - 03/03/03 09:19 AM Re: fun word list AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York the 'aw' sound as in ... born. Case in point. Top #97074 - 03/03/03 09:25 AM Re: fun word list dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK OK! OK! I promise I'll stay away from issues of pronunciation. No pun intended. (Born - issues...oh well.) Top #97075 - 03/03/03 09:50 AM Re: fun word list wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 What a shame the pronunciation symbols are such a disaster - so many of them I remember one I had in highschool French that was marvelously helpful. Now every dictionary is different and Babel results. Top #97076 - 03/03/03 10:12 AM Re: fun word list Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13667 pronunciation symbols are such a disaster Part of the problem is that of agreeing what they mean. This as in prawn or born, as the lovely AnnaS so ably pointed out, makes no sense to someone for whom the vowel sounds in the two words are completely different. We need a site with sound files. Top Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8453 Members 16 Forums 13691 Topics 210110 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members zhangzhen, dene13, MariaAnastasia, MNPrasad, Krysto4 8453 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 22 Guests and 2 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 98 wofahulicodoc 71 endymion6 71 jenny jenny 66 teepee 23 Rhubarb Commando 18 Faldage 14 tsuwm 9 anddrewlee 6 Jackie 4 June Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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