Le 21/10/2010 18:18, Arthur Reutenauer a écrit :
I've watched "House" with pleasure for a number of years. It's taken me
until Series 5, which I'm just catching up on, to realize that House's boss
is "Dr Cuddy" not "Dr Cutty". The actors say /cuddy/ which I assumed was
American for British /cutty/.
Indeed, I had the exact same impression :-)
Common neutralization in American English: /d/ and /t/ are pronounced
the same in some places, namely as /?/.
You can see all those sounds nicely pronounced here:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/ipa/symbols.php
And I mean /see/, not simply /hear/.
Fortunately, spelling (in alphabetical writings, I mean) is
phonological, not phonetic, otherwise Unicode would implode.
Yes, that's totally off-topic. Sorry Mojca. :)
Paul
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