[HPforGrownups] Re: Ear differences from Jim Dale's audio tapes

[Christina Gross]

No: HPFGUIDX 1945

On 22.09.2000 at 22:04:23 Brooks R wrote:

>Actually Vicki, I meant to listen to yours again Real Soon Now.  I 
>(who tend to have a pretty good ear for sounds if I can get them 
>isolated) think that the other day, when I was listening to your 
>tapes, I was hearing a diphthong as someone mentioned earlier.  I 
>could almost imagine he was saying it as a slurred "Her-My-Owe-Nee" 
>instead of "Her-MAH-Nee" - as if it was "Her Mya Nee".   

Actually, that is consistent with the phonetic shift from British to
American English, but please don't ask me to elaborate. I threw out
my Phonetics notes the day after my graduation and don't remember
anything else. ;-)

I just finished listening to PS read by Stephen Fry and loved the way
he does it.

Greetings
Christina

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