tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post1254758864489552555..comments2024-03-17T09:14:13.950+00:00Comments on John Wells’s phonetic blog: brothelJohn Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684304410735867148noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-28170093205850822092018-02-13T09:45:59.934+00:002018-02-13T09:45:59.934+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Inside life of Brothel in Nevadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10951442744799612374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-10259228658115357252011-05-06T07:17:59.863+01:002011-05-06T07:17:59.863+01:00Your information is great!! After reading it, I kn...Your information is great!! After reading it, I knew how adult toys are helpful in increasing pleasure. I believe they also help in building confidence in adults. There is number of businesses started to deal with this kind of stuff because of increased demand. I think one should not hesitate to using it. Thanks for sharing information.<br /> wmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02645177574344223763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-74991960479395296642010-06-29T22:45:14.680+01:002010-06-29T22:45:14.680+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Mitko Sabevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05716261390693316374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-41200442975934314882010-06-29T21:16:49.915+01:002010-06-29T21:16:49.915+01:00Kenyon & Knott also give /ð/ as a variant pron...Kenyon & Knott also give /ð/ as a variant pronunciation. It's not a word I use very often, but both pronunciations "sound right" to me.Tonio Greennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-63041174731772108822010-06-29T17:29:10.489+01:002010-06-29T17:29:10.489+01:00Jack Windsor Lewis asked me to post this for him:
...Jack Windsor Lewis asked me to post this for him:<br />The “exceptionality” of the current *pronuncation* of “brothel” is not “revealed” at all by Murray’s OED1 comment that John quotes. The important fact to remember about the word brothel is that in modern times it’s very much a book word. The digraph is completely ambiguous but I shd say that becoz it has a “notional” value for most people which is /θ/ not /ð/ it consequently has acquired a spelling pronunciation which has replaced the more phonologically regular development it formerly exhibited and still does across the Atlantic to an extent. Even as recently as 1917 in EPD1 Daniel Jones gave the /ð/ pronunciation as first version tho he had omitted it altogether two decades later. In 1797 Walker gave only the /ð/ form and still by 1845 Beniowski agreed. The great 1961 Webster gave a /ð/ variant; so do the Merriam Webster online and ODP.John Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13684304410735867148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-50657483207179989622010-06-29T12:25:51.923+01:002010-06-29T12:25:51.923+01:00I have always said it with /ð/ and intend to go on...I have always said it with /ð/ and intend to go on doing so. Fortunately, it's not a word that comes up much.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-50628213287967797012010-06-29T10:06:59.339+01:002010-06-29T10:06:59.339+01:00"The OED reveals the reason for the exception..."The OED reveals the reason for the exceptionality of brothel." - I don't feel it does, since "brothel" is apparently still of Germanic origin, not of Latin/Greek.Kilian Hekhuishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01084720179158650652noreply@blogger.com