2016-09-30 Idioms: h-reductions, health idioms

Greg Malivuk
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Handout p. 94 - reduction of 3rd person pronouns
he -> ‘e
his -> ‘is
him -> ‘im
her -> ‘er
them -> ‘em
We say things like, “I’ll visit ‘em tomorrow,” which sounds the same as, “I’ll visit ‘im tomorrow.”

We don’t drop the ‘h’ or ‘th’ at the beginning of a sentence, after a pause, or when the word is stressed.
I wasn’t talking to you, I was talking to him. - “you” and “him” are both stressed, to show the contrast of incorrect and correct information. We don’t reduce stressed words.

“You invited her to your party?” - “her” can be stressed or unstressed
	“You invited ‘er to your party?” (unstressed, reduced) = I’m just checking this information.
	“You invited her to your party?” (stressed, not reduced) = I’m surprised you invited her, and probably I’m unhappy, because I don’t want to see her.
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p. 94 part A - write the way that the words would be pronounced in the blank spaces (are they reduced or not?)
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What sentence sounds like “Willy Walker Katz”?
	- Will he walk her cats?

This is sometimes called a Mondegreen, from a song where the lyric “and they laid him on the green” was heard as “and the Lady Mondegreen”.
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Lesson 9 “To Your Health”
p. 103-104 - Use the pictures and sentences to guess the meanings of the expressions.
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Homework: finish figuring out the meanings of the expressions on p. 104