Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!

"lynx" <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> annily wrote:
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>> "David Springthorpe" <david.springthorpe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On Thu, 01 May 2008 02:51:06 GMT, lynx <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>> The producers of 'Home and Away' have got the actors pronouncing
>>>> 'progress' like Americans do.. PROG-ress instead of pro-GRESS. Duh!
>>>> What's next?? will actors be lying on gRASS instead of lawns?
drinking
>>>> water from faucets instead of taps? why on earth do ppl think it's
cool
>>>> or necessary to copy everything the Yanks do and say?!
>>>
>>> I think you'll find one's a noun, the other's a verb.....
>>
>> I don't think his phonetic spelling was clear. Perhaps he was referring

>> to the different ways of pronouncing the noun.
>
> Yes. What wasn't clear about it?
>

The distinction between the long and short "o". It just looked like a 
difference in which syllable was stressed..

>> We use a long "o", yanks use a short "o", both with stress on the first

>> syllable.
>
> Well the Yanks break the word differently. They say 'prog/ress' we say 
> 'pro/gress'. They add the 'g' to the first part, we put it on the
second.
>

That may be true (I find it very difficult to distinguish where the 
syllables start and end), but to me (and I would think most people) the 
difference in the vowel sounds is much more obvious.