martes, 14 de junio de 2011

ENGLISH, ENGLISH,...EVERY ONE IS DIFFERENT

Try saying the following:    

“Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.”

This text can be heard recited 1,300 times at the online speech accent archive at George Mason University in Virginia – and every one is different. The passage was chosen because it contains most of the consonants, vowels and clusters of Standard American English

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