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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Today: numbers and initialisms
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- In the year 1330 33 free trees flew through the Thames.
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- It’s common to make mistakes pronouncing numbers like 13 and 30, 14 and 40, etc.
- fourteen - 2nd syllable stress, ends with /n/, the /t/ is strong and aspirated
- forty - 1st syllable stress, ends with /i/, the /t/ is weak and flapped (almost like /d/)
- 1 There are situations when we’d stress the 1st syllable in fourteen.
- 2 The /n/ is difficult or impossible to hear if the next sound is also nasal.
- 3 The /t/ is not flapped in British English.
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- 1590 / 5090 - This is one of the more difficult pairs to distinguish.
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- p. 43 exercise 5A - Say sentence (a) or (b), and then respond to what you think your partner said.
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- exercise 6A - Decide as a group which number you think is correct in each sentence.
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- Initialism: A “word” made of the first letters of a phrase. They can be prounced as a single word (such as “NASA”) or as individual letters (such as “USA”). Here we’ll talk about the second case.
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- The letters are all pronounced fully and clearly, but the last letter has slightly stronger stress.
- p. 47 exercise 9 - Ask your partner what the initialisms mean. Then switch and do part B.
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- Note: many of these, especially if it’s only 2 or 3 letters, have multiple meanings.
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