2016-10-19 Idioms: vacation and "and" reduction

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: p. 46 - complete the sentences with expressions at the top of the page
This B&B
put us up for the night
booked solid
It was hard to sleep in
hit the town
take in a movie
fun to go sightseeing
We could grab a cab
dancing till all hours of the night
hang out by the pool and soak up some sun
take a dip
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Pronunciation: reduction of “and”
bed and breakfast -> bed’n’breakfast / B&B -> bnb

Sometimes it’s pronounced closer to /m/ or /ŋ/ (the ‘ng’ sound), depending on the next sound:
A and B -> A ‘n B, but we might pronounce it like “A-M-B”
warm and cold -> warm ‘n cold, but we might pronounce it like “warm-eng-cold”
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Handout p. 42 - First, choose the word from the “tornado” that goes in an “and” phrase with the first word and practice pronouncing the phrases.
Then decide if you think the phrase can go in both orders.
(For example, “bed and breakfast” is okay, but “breakfast and bed” isn’t. It will sound like you’re saying “breakfast in bed”, because that is a common expression.)
1 king and queen (“queen and king” is less common, but doesn’t sound strange)
2 in and out (“out and in” is not common)
3 up and down (“down and up” is not common)
4 left and right (“right and left” is also okay)
5 knife and fork (“fork and knife” is also okay)
6 salt and pepper (“pepper and salt” is strange)
7 bread and butter (“butter and bread” is strange)
8 good and bad (“bad and good” is a little strange)
9 peanut butter and jelly (“jelly and peanut butter” is strange)
10 black and white (“white and black” is strange)
11 top and bottom (“bottom and top” is strange)
12 hot and cold (“cold and hot” is strange)
13 night and day (“day and night” is also okay)
14 give and take (“take and give” is strange)
15 father and son (“son and father” is strange)
   (“father and mother” and “mother and father” are both fine, but we say “mom and dad”, not “dad and mom”)
16 sister and brother (“brother and sister” is also okay)
17 husband and wife (“wife and husband” is also okay)
18 shoes and socks (“socks and shoes” is also okay)
19 eyes and ears (“ears and eyes” is quite a bit less common)
20 right and wrong (“wrong and right” is also okay)
21 bacon and eggs (“eggs and bacon” is also okay)
22 cats and dogs (“dogs and cats” is also okay)

bid / bed / bad
Sid / said / sad
mitt / met / mat
him / hem / ham
(ind) / end / and
sinned / send / sand
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https://books.google.com/ngrams/ - You can type a word or phrase and see how common it is in English books (if you type two or three, separate them with commas).
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“black and white” sounds like “blacken white”
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Homework: Lesson 5 handout p. 49-50 - guess the meanings of the expressions