{"id":4024,"date":"2011-07-06T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T09:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2011-07-06T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T09:07:18","slug":"bits-in-scottish-badge-in-danish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/bits-in-scottish-badge-in-danish\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits in Scottish = badge in Danish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jemsweb\/16780366\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/10\/16780366_4999005401_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\/jemsweb\/16780366\/\">Badges<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jemsweb\/\">jemsweb<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve struggled with the phonetic realisation of \/?\/ in Scottish English (i.e., the vowel in words such as <i>bit<\/i>) for a long time.  I keep thinking it should be some sort of [\u026a], but it&#8217;s clearly much more open than that.<\/p>\n<p>It helped a bit when a person called Pete commented on John Wells&#8217;s Phonetic Blog that it ought to be <a href=\"http:\/\/phonetic-blog.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/avoch-aye.html\">transcribed as \/?\/ rather than \/\u026a\/<\/a>, but it only really clicked into place this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Anna (often called <i>Bits<\/i> by Phyllis and the rest of the family) picked up an orange nursery badge.  I said in Danish: &#8220;Amaia, det er et badge.&#8221;  Anna exclaimed: &#8220;It&#8217;s called the same as me! [Danish] \/b?\u00e6d?s(j)\/ &ndash; [Scottish English] \/b?ts\/&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I now need to test this theory, namely that Danes can accurately imitate the pronunciation of Scottish English and Scots \/\u026a\/ by using a Danish \/\u00e6\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Badges Originally uploaded by jemsweb I&#8217;ve struggled with the phonetic realisation of \/?\/ in Scottish English (i.e., the vowel in words such as bit) for a long time. I keep thinking it should be some sort of [\u026a], but it&#8217;s clearly much more open than that. It helped a bit when a person called Pete commented on John Wells&#8217;s Phonetic Blog that it ought to be transcribed as \/?\/ rather than \/\u026a\/, but it only really clicked into place this morning. Anna (often called Bits by Phyllis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,159,117,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-da","category-en","category-linguistics","category-sco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","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=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}