Question for the Canadians
Jun. 24th, 2013 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiAs mentioned in the last post, I listened to language-oriented podcasts en route to work today. One of these was an episode of PRI's The World in Words in which Patrick Cox interviewed Julie Barlow, co-author of The Story of Spanish.
It was a great interview overall (and one that absolutely sold me on the book, as there's a history of Spanish that makes French seem dull, frankly), but at one point, Barlow noted the influence of "Celtic" words, and pronounced that word with a soft C, like one might when talking about the Boston basketball team.
That's something that would annoy me from anyone, and doubly so from a linguist, but I also know, as someone who stumbles around spoken words all the time, that it's easy to mess up. But neither she nor Patrick seemed bothered by it, so I'm wondering: are there parts of the world (specifically parts of Canada*) where this is the accepted pronunciation?
Normally, I chalk this up to a reader's vocabulary (someone who's seen the word in print, but never heard it uttered), but I doubt that's the case here.
(Aside: If you like language podcasts, both the aforementioned Lexicon Valley and PRI's The World in Words are worth listening to.)
*Per her Wikipedia page, Barlow is from Hamilton, Ontario
It was a great interview overall (and one that absolutely sold me on the book, as there's a history of Spanish that makes French seem dull, frankly), but at one point, Barlow noted the influence of "Celtic" words, and pronounced that word with a soft C, like one might when talking about the Boston basketball team.
That's something that would annoy me from anyone, and doubly so from a linguist, but I also know, as someone who stumbles around spoken words all the time, that it's easy to mess up. But neither she nor Patrick seemed bothered by it, so I'm wondering: are there parts of the world (specifically parts of Canada*) where this is the accepted pronunciation?
Normally, I chalk this up to a reader's vocabulary (someone who's seen the word in print, but never heard it uttered), but I doubt that's the case here.
(Aside: If you like language podcasts, both the aforementioned Lexicon Valley and PRI's The World in Words are worth listening to.)
*Per her Wikipedia page, Barlow is from Hamilton, Ontario