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thee or tha?
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:44 pm
by Bailey
I got into an argument last night about the two pronunciations of the; I tried to explain it's the way they are used if it's Thee or tha. but the other persoin insisted it was regional, I know she was wrong.
mark trying-to-keep-the-peace-but-correct Bailey
Re: thee or tha?
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:06 pm
by sluggo
I got into an argument last night about the two pronunciations of the; I tried to explain it's the way they are used if it's Thee or tha. but the other persoin insisted it was regional, I know she was wrong.
mark trying-to-keep-the-peace-but-correct Bailey
We know too
Seems to me it's "thƏ"
(that's spozta be a schwa off the AAaccented character list but not working)
-unless singularity is stressed, then "thee".
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:45 pm
by Bailey
OooooooooooooKay, I'm sure she'll understand that.
mark not-too-sure-what-with-the-boxes-and-all Bailey
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:58 pm
by sluggo
OooooooooooooKay, I'm sure she'll understand that.
mark not-too-sure-what-with-the-boxes-and-all Bailey
The box is supposed to come out as a
schwa, looking like e upside down, representing a nonspecific and very unstressed (remember that?) vowel-grunt. I tried to paste it from the "More Emoticons and Accented Characters" bank but it doesn't work and shows as a box. Almost equivalent to what you first wrote as
tha but with no stress (remember that?).
Just give 'er the link, that'll keep her busy. Or else she might expand for us on regional dialects?
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:08 pm
by Palewriter
If we're only talking about the definite article, then as far as I know, it's /ðə/ unless it's followed by a vowel. Then it's /ði:/.
It's not regional unless, of course, the person you were arguing with was a) your spouse and/or b) extremely attractive in which case all rules default to the "you're absolutely right, dear"-rule.
-- PW
Re: thee or tha?
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:09 pm
by Huny
I got into an argument last night about the two pronunciations of the; I tried to explain it's the way they are used if it's Thee or tha. but the other persoin insisted it was regional, I know she was wrong.
mark trying-to-keep-the-peace-but-correct Bailey
With me, it just depends on the word that follows "the" that determines how I pronounce it. Of course I can't think of any examples right now because my brain had suddenly developed a severe case of gridlock.
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:00 pm
by Bailey
With me, it just depends on the word that follows "the" that determines how I pronounce it. Of course I can't think of any examples right now because my brain had suddenly developed a severe case of gridlock.
exactly, I had that same problem last night.
mark can't-think-of-the-right-word Bailey
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:27 pm
by Perry
See pronounciation
here. I tried to just copy the entry here, but the pronounciation characters didn't paste.
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:40 pm
by Palewriter
See pronounciation
here. I tried to just copy the entry here, but the pronounciation characters didn't paste.
Jeez, Perry, save yourself the bother of pasting. I made the same point in one sentence about three posts ago.
Of course, my characters didn't really come across that well either, but then I've always suspected that I had a serious character flaw.
-- PW
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:10 pm
by Bailey
Dang, PW, you are right again, she was also right, I had to give in, even though I knew I was correct.
mark never-can-win-one Bailey
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:48 am
by Perry
See pronounciation
here. I tried to just copy the entry here, but the pronounciation characters didn't paste.
Jeez, Perry, save yourself the bother of pasting. I made the same point in one sentence about three posts ago.
Of course, my characters didn't really come across that well either, but then I've always suspected that I had a serious character flaw.
-- PW
Yes you did. But I thought that a bit of corroboration was in order.
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:18 pm
by Palewriter
Yes you did. But I thought that a bit of corroboration was in order.
Totally.
-- PW