Klarinet Archive - Posting 000037.txt from 2006/01

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Gran Partitttta (K. 361)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:17:12 -0500

First, in the case of the singular, the "a" is pronounced in a
certain way. In the plural however, it is not the letter "a" but
rather the letter "ä" and the umlaut over the "a" causes it to
be pronounced differently.

In the singular, the word is pronounced to rhyme with "gong." So
it is an "ein gong."

In the plural, there is no English sound that rhymes with an "ä"
but one can approximate it with "ayng" (not "eye-ng but "ay-ng)
and also, in the plural the final "e" is pronounced "eh". Put it
all together and it comes out as "ein gayng eh."

Incidentally, there are English words pronounced one way in the
singular and a different way in the plural, for example goose and
geese.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 2:25 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Gran Partitttta (K. 361)

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:39:46 +0100, "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
wrote:

>Actually, the plural of Eingang (a as in gutter) is Eingänge
(also spelled
>Eingaenge, pronounced ayn-gang-eh with a as in ghetto)
>

I admit to more than a little confusion, because as near as I can
tell,
there is no "a" in either "gutter" or "ghetto". Are you saying
that, in
the singular word, the "a" is pronounced like the "u" in
"gutter", and
in the plural it is like the "e" in "ghetto"?

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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