{"id":2540,"date":"2010-06-22T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2010-06-22T06:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T05:00:27","slug":"more-about-the-penispeonies-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/more-about-the-penispeonies-contrast\/","title":{"rendered":"More about the penis\/peonies contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theta444\/2579130195\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3088\/2579130195_3616a9bc3e_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theta444\/2579130195\/\">Ornamentals Not Lawn<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/theta444\/\">Scrunchleface<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/19\/2500\/\">my recent blog posting about penis vs. peonies<\/a>, I found this in John Wells&#8217;s <i>Accents of English: The British Isles<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><rm>Some speakers also have instances of apparently autonomous length contrasts in other environments, e.g. <i>leek<\/i> [lik] vs. <i>leak<\/i> [li?k], <i>vane<\/i> [ven] vs. <i>vain<\/i> [ve?n], <i>creek<\/i> [krik] vs. <i>creak<\/i> [kri?k], <i>choke<\/i> vs. <i>joke<\/i>, <i>made<\/i> vs. <i>maid<\/i>, <i>badge<\/i> vs. <i>cadge<\/i>.<\/rm><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, when I asked Phyllis to read aloud these words, she didn&#8217;t have any length contrasts in them, so she doesn&#8217;t seem to be in the group of speakers mentioned by Wells.<\/p>\n<p>Curiouser and curiouser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ornamentals Not Lawn Originally uploaded by Scrunchleface After my recent blog posting about penis vs. peonies, I found this in John Wells&#8217;s Accents of English: The British Isles: Some speakers also have instances of apparently autonomous length contrasts in other environments, e.g. leek [lik] vs. leak [li?k], vane [ven] vs. vain [ve?n], creek [krik] vs. creak [kri?k], choke vs. joke, made vs. maid, badge vs. cadge. However, when I asked Phyllis to read aloud these words, she didn&#8217;t have any length contrasts in them, so she doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/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-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","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=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}