J. C. WellsCambridge University PressEdition: Illustrated, 9/22/2016EAN 9781107157798, ISBN10: 110715779XHardcover, 222 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 1.4 cmLanguage: EnglishOriginally published in EnglishHow do you pronounce biopic, synod, and Breughel? - and why? Do our cake and archaic sound the same? Where does the stress go in stalagmite? What's odd about the word epergne? Pontcysyllte is obviously Welsh, but Penge is Welsh too! How cool is Caol in the Highlands of Scotland? What can Wesley's hymns tell us about sound change in English? How do people pronounce Wrocław in Poland? How can anyone manage to say Gdynia as just two syllables? Why is the village of Frith in the island of Montserrat usually pronounced as if spelt Frits? What embarrassing faux pas in English did a Russian conglomerate make? Should I bild a cubbard instead of building a cupboard? How should we capitalize an exclamation mark, and why might we need to? What's a depressor consonant? As a finale, the author writes a letter to his 16-year-old self.Part I. Words, Names, People and Places1. Unusual words2. Food and drink words3. Interesting words4. Names5. People6. Places7. Abroad8. Home from abroadPart II. Sounds and Letters9. Allophones10. Phonetic processes11. Spelling12. TranscriptionPart III. Applied Phonetics13. Classification14. EFL15. Accents16. Lexical stress17. Connected speech18. Texts in transcriptionPart IV. Roundup19. Rhetoric20. Language mosaic21. Postscript.
