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SUMMARY:Phonetics from blog to book - John Wells\, UCL
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CONTACT:Jamie Douglas
DESCRIPTION:How does a professor of phonetics fill his time after retireme
 nt? Starts writing a blog\, of course. Seven years later\, what does he do
  with some of these thousands of words of accumulated material? Turns them
  into a book.\n\nHow do you pronounce omega\, tortoise and sloth? What abo
 ut Charon\, Beijing\, Punjab\, and Sexwale? Why were cruise ship passenger
 s in Antigua invited to a game of “porker”? What can hymns tell us abo
 ut pronunciation?\n\nWhy does the spelling <au> correspond to different so
 unds in chauvinist\, Spandau\, gaucho\, and Blaenau? How is the pronunciat
 ion of “student” changing? Which words change their pronunciation depe
 nding on whether they are nouns or verbs?\n\nWhich sounds are really\, rea
 lly\, rare among the languages of the world? \nWhy is the intonation of 
 “Hi!” interesting? Search me!\n\nJohn Wells is Emeritus Professor of P
 honetics at UCL and author of Accents of English and the Longman Pronuncia
 tion Dictionary.\n
LOCATION:GR06-7\, English Faculty\, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site)
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