Dear Linda and Vocalisters
You asked:
>Out of interest, do you make any distinction between "love" and "laugh"
>(I'm talking about singing now, Lloyd :o) or is that just in UK
>pronunciation. (apart from the final consonant of course)
Actually, in the USA we make quite a marked difference between these two words.
"Love" is the upside down v in IPA. The same sound as in "Shun" And
even here there are differences depending on the part of the US on is
from. But the version I gave is the accepted one.
"Laugh" , as pronounced in the USA is the IPA symbol /ae/. T he same
sound as in the American "That". Your pronunciation is, if I
understand it correctly, the same as upside down v. Correct?
Lloyd
>PS while typing this I'm listening to a CD of Purcell's Come Ye Sons Of
>Art, and am grinning at the memory of my oh-so-prim niece being in
>trouble (it was called a "demerit") for the first and only time in her
>school choir when they sang this, because on the phrase "grant, oh
>grant", she and a friend were making piggy noises because they thought
>it came out exactly like "grunt, oh grunt". I guess this only works in
>southern English pronunciation.
I hear what you mean. But in the Americn pronounciation it would be
the /as/ sound as in the American "that".
--
Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA
Professor of Voice, Pedagogy
School of Performing Arts
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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