phonetics

“Ending with a Diphthong, Ending with a High Front Vowel”: Annoying Scholarly Phonetic Descriptions of Annoying Sounds Annoyed Teenagers Make

Uvular fricatives. Unrounded vowels. Glottal stops. As an English major, I studied linguistics and spent many hours learning my way around affricates, fricatives, and, of course, dipthongs, which sounded vaguely dirty and… Read More