The Classification of English Vowel Phonemes 4 страница

Payne: On how many days?

6. Capes: There’ll be no race if James has to work late.

Day: If who has to work late?

7. Grace: What a miserable day!

Wales: Cheer up, Clay. It’ll soon stop raining.

8. Slade: He sails on the twenty- eighth.

Bacon: What date does he sail?

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1. The island is nine miles long½ and five miles wide.

2. The climate’s pretty mild in Ireland.

3. I don’t think you’ll mind my trying it several times.

4. Out of sight½ out of mind.

5. I was sur prised½ that neither reply was right.

6. You must light a fire to warm the dining-room.

7. I should like you to write your reply on Friday.

8. Will you have time to type a few lines for me?

II

1. Wilde: Mike’ll 'meet us at nine.

Hide: At what time?

2. Bright: It’s entirely up to you, Giles.

Giles: Would you mind if I re·fused?

3. Whyte: My knife’s hopeless.

Price: Well, would mine cut any better?

4. Fyle: Be nice to Blythe.

Lisle: Be nice to Blythe? Why should I?

5. Dighton: I should fry them.

Miles: You would fry them?

6. Dives: Would you like to try?

Pyke: Would I like to try?

7. Dyson: Tell me the time, please.

Rider: Tell you the time? Nine minutes past nine.

8. Spikings: These matches won’t strike.

Riding: Mine strike.

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Mr Howard: I may be a bit late to night. There’s a meeting of the Council,½ at five,½ and there’s no saying how long it’ll go on. Would it make things easier ½ if I had something to eat in Town?

Mrs Howard: Just as you like. If you think it’d be less tiring to have dinner before you come down,½ you’d better do that.

Mr Howard: As far as I’m con cerned,½ I’d rather not. But I don’t ·want to keep you waiting a bout ½ and spoil your evening.

Mrs Howard: You needn’t worry about that. If you’re going to be late,½ I shall go round to Mrs Gower this after noon,½ and I needn’t hurry back. We can have something out of a tin if necessary. If you change your mind½you can ring me up at Mrs Gower’s.

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1. No, I don’t think so – ½ or rather I don’t know.

2. I hope you’re both going home.

3. There’s no place like home.

4. When he comes home ½ he throws open all the windows.

5. I don’t know ½ how to make the dough for scones.

6. I hope you know ½ who wrote those poems.

7. No one knows ½ where the old fogey obtained the loan.

8. I don’t smoke so much as Joe does.

II

1. Clover: You can phone me to morrow.

Holmes: When can I phone you?

2. Robeson: I’ve got to go to Oakland.

Mo lony: You’ve got to go?

3. Clow: Joan broke her arm. So she couldn’t sew.

Mould: Why couldn’t she sew?

4. Crowe: It’s going to turn cold.

Colts: Think so?

5. Owen: Show me those postcards.

Coles: Show them to you?

6. Rowe: Shall we go boating?

Bones: To morrow?

7. Snow: It’s broken on both sides.

Noble: On both sides?

8. Oakley: I stopped smoking a long time ago.

Soames: A long time ago? How long ago?

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1. Small boys like noise-making toys.

2. Most coins are made of alloys.

3. I think Joyce is a bit hoity- toity.

4. Do you know the boiling and freezing points of water?

5. Any noise annoys an oyster ½ but a noisy noise annoys an oyster most.

6. Joy cooked them in boiling oil.

7. You en joyed eating the oysters,½ didn’t you?

8. Roy was annoyed with the boy ½ because he’d spoiled his toy.

II

1. Doyle: I’m glad she’s enjoyed her stay.

Bois: Has she enjoyed it?

2. Boyd: Is that your little boy?

D’Oyley: My little boy?

3. Boycott: What ever made you join them?

Joyce: It couldn’t be a voided.

4. Boyton: There’s no point in asking Roy.

Joy: He’s got a good voice.

5. Roy: I’m quite en joying this turmoil.

Lloyd: Then for heaven’s sake don’t look disap pointed.

6. Mac quoid: I’ve asked Joyce to stand in.

Oyster: Joyce!½ She’ll be a disap pointment.

7. Poynter: He spoiled my best decoy.

Royce: How terriby an noying for you.

8. Poynings: He refused point- blank.

Toye: How very an noying!½ A kill-joy,½ that’s what he is.

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1. He made it clear ½ that his criticism would be se vere.

2. I fear he’s far from being sin cere.

3. It’s real cash mere, my dear.

4. The day was clear ½ and the boys went to the pier.

5. If it’s not fear,½ then what else is it, Mr Tier?

6. Don’t sneer at his inex perience, dear.

7. Towards night ½ the severe weather turned into a real storm.

8. Steer clear of Mr Geare.

II

1. Tear: What are you staging this year?

Cleary: Shakespeare’s “King Lear”.

2. Dearley: Peary’s grown a beard.

Tier: A beard.

3. Geare: I can’t see to type here.

Spearman: Move the other light nearer.

4. Geary: I hate beer.

Leary: So do I, dear.

5. Geering: I thought you were in Ismai lia.

Kearley: Where did you get that idea from?

6. Mrs Keary: Oh dear, oh dear!

Mr Keary: What is it, my dear?

7. Pearson: Why didn’t he come here?

Peary: I haven’t the slightest i dea.

8. Pearce: I think I can clear seven feet.

Rean: Can you really?

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1. I can’t tell you about Clare. I wasn’t there.

2. Oh there you are, Mary!

3. Why don’t you wear this pair of shoes?

4. His angry glare didn’t scare them.

5. Give Clare a fair share of pear jam.

6. Clare’s dairy is in want of re pairs.

7. The unwary bear was caught in his lair.

8. This mare won a prize at the fair.

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1. Carey: I’ve said I’ll wear it.

Sheard: Yes, but where?

2. Cairns: What shall I do with these chairs?

Blair: Have them re paired.

3. Mrs Laird: I haven’t got a decent hat to wear.

Mr Laird: Wear the one you wore at the fair.

4. Mrs Fairbanks: I can’t bear Clare.

Mr Fairbanks: Nor can your parents.

5. Fairfax: I can’t find the square anywhere.

Daring: Have you looked in the warehouse?

6. Dares: The stairs is being re paired!

Fairfield: I’ll be very careful.

7. Fairleigh: Just leave the whole affair to Clare and me.

Wareham: For heaven’s sake be careful.

8. Fairford: You should dye your hair, Clare.

Clare: Dare I risk it?

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1. I’m absolutely sure it’s pure wool.

2. She couldn’t endure seeing animals treated cruelly.

3. He needs a rest-cure, I’m sure.

4. She did it to make assurance doubly sure.

5. During February½ they made a tour of Europe.

6. This ladder’s quite se cure,½ I’m sure.

7. Can you cure her of curi osity?

8. What did the tourists do during the day?-

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1. Doorly: I think Moor wrote this overture.

Stuart: Are you sure, though?

2. Moore: Was it easy to se cure it?

Poore: Pure child’s play.

3. Moorgate: Well, I’m sure we’ll get there in time.

Dewar: I’m worried about the fuel.

4. Du rand: I think it’s past curing.

Moore: Surely not.

5. Fury: He says he doesn’t want security of tenure.

Stewart: Don’t be too sure.

6. Tours: I’m sure he’ll outwit his pur suer.

Drury: What makes you so sure?

7. Brewer: He says that the soil is not so poor on that moor.

Duer: How very un usual!

8. Du rell: He has been feeling rather poorly of late.

Sewell: All that he needs is a rest-cure, I’m sure.