Pronunciation of Sch-
This article is good practice in reading Spanish. This bit I find puzzling:
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I agree with you. Another common example, the word school. (pronounced, skuul). What are some other words that start with sch-? Schooner, for example.
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I suppose that comes from German pronunciation (It's Schultz, it must be Scholes). Certainly /'ʃoles/ or /'ʃoləs/ may be the way they'd pronounce it here, or /ʃoʊls/ if they'd try "to play the Englishman", as they say.
It has to do with some expectation about how "our alphabet" is used within a foreign language and native aversion for syllables that start with two consonant sounds . I suppose English speakers do the same with what they also rightly call "our alphabet". |
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My comment on Yiddish was provoked by seeing the following in a dictionary: schlemiel, schlep(p), schlock, schmaltz, schmooze, schmuck.
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Yes, you are all totally right from the viewpoint of the English phonetics. The author of the Spanish paper (I haven't read it yet) is talking from the viewpoint of the Espanish way to pronounce things... like Alec says.
An Italian "chiaro" ("claro", obvious, clear) is pronounced with "k" and even in some Latin classes, the name Cicero, was pronounced "Kikero" (even if in Spanish is pronounced "Thithero" or "Sisero"...) Espanish people need to go to Eskul... so these thzings get through our thzick Eskuls! :rolleyes: |
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Get yourself an Oxford dictionary and you'll find a lot of Sch words.
Schism /sizəm, skizm/ --For this they gave two pronunciations. Schist /shist/ --And this one they gave a sh sound. |
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