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Hi Alison,
I am just wondering if you could provide a little more information about this list.
In the word ‘scarce’, I understand that it would be segmented as [s][c][ar][ce] (/s/ /k/ /ɛə/ /s/). However, when I was looking in Macquarie dictionary it says that a word such as ‘vary’ only has grapheme a representing this sound. (ie. vary [v][a][r][y] /v/ /ɛə/ /r/ /i/). I believe this is the case with quite a few words in the list.
Is this correct? Have you sorted these words together because it has something to do with epenthesis (linking r or intrusive r – I don’t know much about these)? Or should some of these words be on a separate list e.g. ‘a as in vary’ compared to ‘ar as in scarce’?
Thank you in advance for your time and thoughts.
Warmest regards,
Michelle
Hi Michelle, you’re right, I need to edit this and a few other lists, it’s on my list of jobs to do before the end of the school holidays which start after next week. I need to rename this list a as in parent, and just add ‘ar as in scarce’ to the main list, I don’t think there are any other words with just ‘ar’ for the sound /air/. I wasn’t thinking hard enough about epenthesis when I made these lists, it seemed crazy to have a whole additional sound for the letter A. We have been struggling with this when coding words for our decodable text writing interface, as we count three phonemes in ‘scare’, ‘play’ and ‘grow’, but when you add a vowel suffix, the ‘r’, ‘y’ and ‘w’ become pronounced to separate the two vowels, so if you’re adding ‘ing’ that’s two phonemes, but the end product is ‘scaring’, ‘playing’ and ‘growing’ all with 6 phonemes. Gah. English. Sorry that was confusing and I will fix it soon. Alison
Should military be on this list?
In my accent, the ‘a’ or ‘ar’ ( I think really I should rename this ‘a as in parent’ because the ‘r’ is pronounced) in ‘military’ is either a schwa/unstressed vowel (/ˈmɪlətəri/ or completely elided (/ˈmɪlətri/). So I don’t think so, except of course in one’s ‘spelling voice’, where each syllable is said the way it’s spelt.