{"id":2500,"date":"2010-06-19T08:26:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T07:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2010-06-19T08:26:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T07:26:38","slug":"penis-vs-peonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/penis-vs-peonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Penis vs. peonies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In RP, the distinction between ‘penis’ \/?pi?n?s\/ and ‘peonies’ \/?pi??n?z\/ is very clear.<\/p>\n

However, in Scottish English, the \/?\/ in the latter word is omitted, so in my current mixture of RP and Scottish English the two words become almost homophonous: \/?pi?n?s\/ vs. \/?pi?n?z\/.<\/p>\n

However, applying the standard rules of Scottish English (not of Scots!) would make the difference somewhat clearer – you would expect the difference to be \/’pin?s\/ [?pin?s] vs. \/?pine#z\/ [?pine?z].<\/p>\n

The difference is even bigger, though.<\/p>\n

Something happens to the first vowel in peonies, so the difference is actually [?pin?s] vs. [?pi?ne?z], as if it were \/?pi#ne#z\/ (almost like a hypothetical compound *pea-nays).<\/p>\n

I wonder what’s going on – in Scottish English vowel length is normally predictable if you know the morphology of the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peonie Originally uploaded by emrld_cicada In RP, the distinction between ‘penis’ \/?pi?n?s\/ and ‘peonies’ \/?pi??n?z\/ is very clear. However, in Scottish English, the \/?\/ in the latter word is omitted, so in my current mixture of RP and Scottish English the two words become almost homophonous: \/?pi?n?s\/ vs. \/?pi?n?z\/. However, applying the standard rules of Scottish English (not of Scots!) would make the difference somewhat clearer – you would expect the difference to be \/’pin?s\/ [?pin?s] vs. \/?pine#z\/ [?pine?z]. The difference is even bigger, though. Something happens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}