Re: [en] Sassenach - Aussprache

Dirk Lucas <dlucas@xxxxxx> wrote:

Stephen Hust schrieb:

Das "New Oxford American Dictionary", Second Edition (2005),
gibt nur

m@st (@=Schwa wie a in ago)

an. Nach diesem Wörterbuch werden auch /mud/, /ton/, /blood/
und /trouble/ mit Schwa ausgesprochen.

Wie sehen bei solchen Beispielen eigentlich Verbindlichkeit und
auch Verständlichkeit der Aussprache aus, insbesondere im
Vergleich zur Aussprache von Worten im Deutschen? Ist man im
Englischen einfach nur sehr schnell und konsequent bei der
phonetischen Transkribierung in den Wörterbüchern?

MMn hört man ja im Deutschen öfter "tschulligung" und "einklich"
als "Entschuldigung" und "eigentlich". Wie steht die Aussprache
dann im Wörterbuch? Wahrscheinlich doch eher in der
konservativeren Ausformung, oder irre ich da?

Ich zitiere einfach aus drei Wörterbüchern (einem amerikanischen
und zwei britischen):

| This dictionary shows pronunciations of words spoken carefully
| and individually. It does not give pronunciations of words used
| in running speech, where much variation occurs.
|
| The pronunciations in this dictionary reflect spoken AMERICAN
| ENGLISH in the variety most widely used throughout the United
| States. Regional and local American English pronunciations are
| included as well as British English and foreign pronunciations
| wherever necessary or appropriate.
|
("Webster's New World College Dictionary", Fourth Edition, 2002.)

| Pronunciations vary within the British Isles and throughout the
| English-speaking world. The system followed here is the
| so-called 'Received Pronunciation' characteristic of educated
| speech in southeast England and conventionally used as a model
| in the teaching of English.
|
("The Penguin English Dictionary", 2003.)

| The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is used in
| representing the standard accent of English as spoken in the
| south of England (sometimes called Received Pronunciation or
| RP). It is recognized that, although the English of southern
| England is the pronunciation given, many variations are heard in
| standard speech in other parts of the English-speaking world.
|
("Concise Oxford English Dictionary", Eleventh Edition, 2004.)

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