In a message dated 12/15/00 8:51:57 AM Eastern Standard Time,
colin-reed@l... writes:
<< Sound of many non-US listers, whose pronounciation of "baroque" doesn't
rhyme
with "choke" going "Wha...??" >>
Colin, most of us USers do not pronounce Baroque to rhyme with choke but give
it both its sylables, although often making the innitial "a" sound neutral.
In the case of "broke," the vowel is sometimes extended into a dipthong with
the first part neutral and sounded with the "br" cluster and a closed "o" as
the vanish, or extended into a tripthong with the "u" vanish of the typical
American "o." As a Southerner, I can attest to this dialect! But there is
yet an intension you didn't get. Read it as "Baroque or pre-Baroque" and
heighten the hypothetical tenor's range and see what you get with an extended
meaning of "fix."
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