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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

stretching the vowel

Hi,

I have seen writing where people would stretch the vowel or vowels in a word to (what I think is) create a special or specific effect. In that case, only the vowel part can be stretched? Is that because the English language only makes the sound on the vowel part?

e.g.

Gooooood.
  

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We can also write hmmmmm, arghhhh, shhhh. So it is not limited to vowels, but I don't think it can include every consonant! (However, if you google you see that faileddd, stoppeddd, nailll, pickkk, ...

— LanguageLover

  • We can also write hmmmmm, arghhhh, shhhh.
  • So it is not limited to vowels, but I don't think it can include every consonant!
  • (However, if you google you see that faileddd, stoppeddd, nailll, pickkk, ...
  • even annn are mentioned in many pages.
  • )
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We can also write hmmmmm, arghhhh, shhhh. So it is not limited to vowels, but I don't think it can include every consonant! (However, if you google you see that faileddd, stoppeddd, nailll, pickkk, ... even annn are mentioned in many pages. So, I don't know if there are any rules here!)
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Gooooood
hmmmmm

These sorts of spellings try to mimic speech, where http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonorant are sometimes prolonged.

I don't think a spelling like "faileddd" is meant to mimic speech, since htt
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Yes, Alienvoord is right. Sonarants (nasals, approximants, glides, and vowels) can be pronounced in that way.
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