Timeline for What is the word that shares meaning with "mausoleum" but sounds like 'chartomb' (/tʃaːtuːm/)?
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| Nov 3, 2019 at 2:22 | comment | added | Louis Waweru | Like @tchrist, I read this word with /o/ (North East USA). | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 2:12 | vote | accept | Louis Waweru | ||
| Nov 2, 2019 at 22:49 | comment | added | grandtout | @tchrist I'm using Wells's notation that is different for BrE and AmE. "u:" is the GOOSE vowel, "əu" the GOAT vowel for BrE, "oʊ" the GOAT vowel for AmE. The idea is that there are two ways to pronounce "catacomb" in BrE, one more common than the other, and only one in AmE. | |
| Nov 2, 2019 at 20:03 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @petitrien Shouldn't those phonetic allophones be in brackets not slashes? Why are you using slashes for things that aren't phonemes in English? This actually makes a big difference here. /kom/ and /kum/ are a minimal pair, but what you wrote is two kinds of /o/ and so, being mere allophones, don''t count to make them different words in the ear of the listener. | |
| Nov 2, 2019 at 19:46 | comment | added | grandtout | @tchrist Wells in his Pronunciation Dictionary gives /ˈkætəku:m/ as the more common pronunciation in British English, /ˈkætəkəum/ as less common, and /ˈkæt̬əkoʊm/ as the only pronunciation in American English. | |
| Nov 2, 2019 at 17:02 | history | edited | Lordology | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2019 at 16:56 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | I'm never heard catacoom with /u/ either, only catacome with /o/. Listen to these. | |
| Nov 2, 2019 at 16:43 | comment | added | Lordology | @tchrist I've never heard "kattakom"; always kattakoom in the UK, at least. | |
| Nov 2, 2019 at 16:41 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | The pronunciation with /o/ is today more common than the one with /u/. | |
| Nov 2, 2019 at 16:06 | history | answered | Lordology | CC BY-SA 4.0 |