Everyone should have a pinned #VillageWitch post listing the esoteric things that they are hedge-experts in and don’t mind strangers knocking on their metaphorical doors asking about. I’ll start.
• comparitive linguistics in English accents
• picture framing
• Karplus-Strong resonant synthesis
• colorimetry in quilting
@futzle wait. can you explain if there's any rhyme or reason to which words with a short "a" are pronounced as "ah" in RP english
like why does "path" become "pahth" but "cabin" is "cabin"
@nev This is a split that occurred in southeast England (and areas they colonized like mine). Areas not affected by the split, like most of North American English, will often distinguish these two sounds by length. The /æ/ in “path” /pæːθ/ is frequently longer than the one in “cabin” /ˈkæbɪn/.
In Split areas, /æː/ migrated to /ɑː/ while /æ/ stayed put.
So you can often guess how an RP speaker will say a word by auditioning the /æ(ː)/ in your pronunciation. If long-vowel works, substitute /ɑː/, otherwise use /æ/.
Needless to say, there are exceptions, and disputes about some words (“dance”, “castle”).
“Trap-Path split” is the term to DDG.
@futzle thank you!
This chart <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap%E2%80%93bath_split#In_Received_Pronunciation> is doing my Canadian English head in (it's like the phonetic equivalent of an optical illusion, sort of?), but is immensely helpful.
Also,
> 'Many of the northerners were noticeably hostile to /ɡrɑːs/, describing it as…even "for morons"'<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap%E2%80%93bath_split#Social_attitudes>
made me lol irl
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