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[Facts] Re: Rough pronunciation UH vs. U

by Crissov

4/6/2016, 12:19 PM

That’s strange, using refined search I’m not finding any either. Perhaps it was in fact just in user-contributed names, for I’ve been looking at a lot of those lately.

Another oddity I can attest, however: ‘ah’ (/ɒ/–/ɑ/ in pot, con) is used on a regular basis for /a/ (which has no distinguished code in the Pronunciation Guide) or /ʌ/ (which should be U). See, for instance, the German (and related) pronunciations of Hannah, Barbara and Franziska. Maybe it’s just that the examples in the guide aren’t optimal.

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- mirfak +2

4/6/2016, 1:04 PM

Oh, alright. Yeah, the submitted pronunciations are often not edited if there is no reference available for correct pronunciation, they're just left as they were submitted, and submitters don't always use the BtN key properly.

Is Hannah in German really pronounced with an /ʌ/ at the end by German speakers, rather than sounding the same as the first a?

(I thought the "ah" endings given for non-English pronunciations reflected actual pronunciations, and that was why they were "u" or schwa for English but not other languages.)

- Rene +1

4/6/2016, 1:19 PM

I only know Hannah pronounced with two identical "a" sounds around here in the German-speaking countries, like the two "a"s in the name Anna.

- Crissov

4/7/2016, 12:23 AM

Indeed, all the ‘a’ in Hannah and Anna are basically equal (except for stress and length) and would be denoted by [a] or [ʌ] in IPA, not [ɑ] and certainly not [ɒ] which is almost [ɔ].

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