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Marvin A. Posted 19 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

How do you say "shopping"?

0 How do you pronounce shopping?02br
00a) shopping [ SOpIN ]02br
00b) shoppin' [ SOpIn ]02br
00c) shoppeen [ SOpin ]02br
00d) none of the above.0-
  

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0 Personally, a is closest to how I pronounce it (I don't really understand the parts in brackets though - Sho not So. The o is the same sound as in 'hot'. ) 0-

— Nona the brit

  • 0 Personally, a is closest to how I pronounce it (I don't really understand the parts in brackets though - Sho not So.
  • The o is the same sound as in 'hot'.
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0 Personally, a is closest to how I pronounce it (I don't really understand the parts in brackets though - Sho not So. The o is the same sound as in 'hot'. The stress is on the first syllable.) 0-
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite10(I don't really understand the parts in brackets though - 12blockquote
10If you have IPA fonts installed, in IPA it would be:02br
00a) shopping [ SOpIN ] [ ʃɔpɪŋ ]02br
00b) shoppin' [ SOpIn ] [ ʃɔpɪn ]02br
00c) shoppeen [ SOpin ] [ ʃɔpin ]02br

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0It's (a) for me, too: [05005105205305405505600].030srchttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/assets/phonetics/11.gif31srchttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/assets/phonetics/s2.gif32srchttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/assets/phonetics/q2.gif33srchttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/assets/phonetics/p1.gif34srchttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/assets/phonetics/02.gif3
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00 I'd say / ʃɑpɪŋ / (IPA) = / SApIN / (SAMPA)02br
00 Sometimes I also pronounce the final n as in "pin", I don't know why (like "shoppin").010id5
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0 Kooyeen, I thought I remembered that when you took the American dialect test, you came out as a Westerner. You also said that you are normally cot [ A ] -caught [ O ] merged. If so, then [ A ] and [ O ] should be allophones of the same vowel. When I pronounce "shopping" sometimes its closer to an [ A ] , other times its closer to [ O ] .02br
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0 Like Kooyeen, I'd have said /SApIN/ (SAMPA).02br
00 I suspect our British friends are using /SQpIN/.02br
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00 My understanding is that /O/ is the 01i00au02i00 in 01i00author02i00. I don't think either Americans or Brits use that, do they (in "shopping")?02br
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0 >> My understanding is that /O/ is the au in author. I don't think either Americans or Brits use that, do they (in "shopping")? 02<<
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00Well, in my dialect, the vowels in cot, caught, father, bother, don, and dawn, and author are all the same. I do not produce nor perceive a distinction between them. Therefore for me, "ah" and "au" (as in author) are the same v
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