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I did not know what English sounded like; I just had an idea in my mind.
How can we be sure what Early Modern English sounded like?
Were the songs being sung only phonetically, so that "affairs" rhymed with "scarce" (in "Save All Your Love for Me") and the group's English sounded stiffly contrived?
This music, so self-consciously English, sounded different in America, where its rather nerdy creators were greeted as exotic rock stars.
One said that Abbado's monosyllabic English "sounded like broken Japanese".Divisions of that kind form a recurrent motif throughout the LSO's history, the inevitable result of powerful individuals with firm views battling to preserve their personal rights and dictate corporate direction.
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But the reason why English sounds like it does today is because people pronounced things incorrectly.
"This is not a floor, it's a deck," he said, explaining that "deck," in English, sounds like a Dutch word for cover.
"They have a great aptitude at catching English sounds & ask American name of everything they see, & so pick up a vocabulary of our language.
All but a few languages have nasal consonants (the English sounds m, n, and ng as in sing), and some, such as French, have nasalized vowels as well.
I was able to achieve the general shape but not the size of the model wave forms of the American English sounds in Pronunciation Power.
- what English sounds like after I get a note from the school saying there's lice in the class.
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