Warum spricht man Leicester und Worcester im English anders aus als man andere englische Wörter ausspricht?
Lester und Wuster ? Müsste es nicht Lecester und Worcester klingen?
6 Antworten
Hallo,
nein, denn während wir im Deutschen im Großen und Ganzen nach der Schrift sprechen, ist das in anderen Sprachen - beileibe nicht nur im Englischen - eben anders.
Für die Aussprache gibt es keine wirklichen Regeln! Deshalb lernt man am besten die Vokabeln mit der dazugehörigen phonetischen Lautschrift, die zeigt, wie Buchstaben, Buchstabenkombinationen und die Wörter ausgesprochen werden.
Schon George Bernard Shaw hat in einem Vorwort zu seinem Gedicht English Pronunciation geschrieben
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-JDu3o7Cyw
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
AstridDerPu
Das Gedicht ("The Chaos") stammt nicht von GB Shaw, sondern vom Niederländer Gerard Nolst Trenité.
Die englische Sprache hat sich über Jahrunderte aus verschiedenen anderen Sprachen entwickelt. Von den Kelten, den Wikingern, den Angeln, die Sachsen, die Franzosen ... alle brachten ihre eigene Sprache mit. Deshalb werden viele Wörter anders geschrieben, als man es bei der heutigen Aussprache vermuten würde.
Man müsste sich mal die Geschichte der Städte genauer anschauen - dann kommt man vermutlich dahinter, wo ihre Namen ursprünglich herkamen.
unterschiedliche etymologische Herkunft bestimmt die Aussprache, nicht die Buchstabenkombination. Recipe reimt sich auch nicht auf ripe.
Weil Englisch schon sehr lange keine Rechtschreibreform hatte. Man hat den "great vowel shift" zwischen 1300 und 1700 nicht in der Schrift widergespiegelt.
https://de.babbel.com/de/magazine/geschichte-englische-rechtschreibung
Gloucester nicht vergessen!