[B-Greek] HTA

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Sun Jul 16 17:49:49 EDT 2006


At 09:41 PM 7/16/2006 +0100, Gerry wrote:
>In his  grammar Ward seems to indicate that the HTA carries a English "R" sound by his examples.
>His examples for pronunciation are as  follows: Yair-soos for Jesus and Or-gair for ORGH.
>It would seem from these that he intends that the pronunciation carries the "R" sound.
>
>He gave me a further example in English to indicate what he meant. 
>
>"Eta is the long version of epsilon. The sound as in "there" is thus easy 
>to remember - and logical - as it is in fact a longer, drawn-out version of 
>epsilon. Check this out for yourself: say the word "shed", then say it 
>again, but make the vowel sound longer, i.e. a "long e". And "shed" has now 
>become "shared" - that is, the epsilon sound has become the long "e" sound 
>in "there". (Or "air", if you like.)"
>
>Unless I have fundamentally misunderstood his intent then it appears that he believes an "R" sound is part of HTA's pronunciation.

No.  Ward's comments are meant for a non-rhotic variety of
English in which an R following a vowel does not actually
have an R-sound but lengthens the vowel.  If your variety
of English actually pronounces the R (as mine does--I'm
American), then only take his comments as referring to the
vowel and ignore the R.

Stephen Carlson 
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