Sounds like a pretty weird position to be in. It’s a lot better than being totally poor and broke I guess, but they should kind of relax and enjoy a little bit of that money.
And if you want to make money and you want to do investments it’s a good idea to get a lot of money and a terrible investment is stuffing it under your mattress. If you «stuff your money under your mattress» and a mattress is your bed, if you put your money literally under your bed instead of in the bank or instead of in the stock market you’re really going to lose out over time, and someone’s probably going to steal it and honestly the phrase came from the old days when people were actually afraid of banks failing and they couldn’t get their money back. So when some kind of scared people had a bunch of money they would not put it in the bank, they would not invest it, they would just save it at home and put it under their bed and I guess they thought when they were sleeping nobody would bother stealing it.
Yeah, it sounds like a pretty weird idea to put a lot of money under your bed, but I guess if you have a couple bucks maybe not the worst idea. It’s better than spending it all on nothing and going into debt with your credit cards and having to lose your house, which a lot of people have certainly done and some baby boomers have done it and some of them haven’t and a «baby boomer» is an excellent phrase, and it’s a common term used to describe a whole generation in America and these are all the kids born in the years after World War II and in that time many people were born in America and many other Western countries because the men would come home from the war they’d be kind of lonely and bored. Their wives would be there waiting for them and they’d have nothing to do except for start a pretty big family. So for the years between 1946 in 1964 there was this huge baby boom they called it where a lot of people had babies and there were just a lot of babies born during that time".
After the listening to this dialogue we can make some conclusions.
The variability and the vocalization of the approximant [r], which exist now not only in American English but in the southern English, Scottish, Irish and national and regional variants of English.
Vocalization continues to evolve in pronunciation of the speakers, and this time it concerns the sound [l] in words such as told, sold, old.
Similarly disappears [j] after [l], [s], [h], and after [n]: suit, huge, luminous, and new.
Processes of affritisation [t] in stressed and unstressed syllables in such words as time, fortune, of voicing of intervocalic [t] to flap in the word better and elision of [t] after a nasal as in the word international in the U.S. version. There is also a glottalization of [t] in the southern English in words such as waiter, certain, overglottalization [t] in the words cat, coat, three levels of aspiration in the words take, steak, sat.
Glottalization of consonants [p], [t], [k] for example: pretty, kind, put. Glottalization [p], [t], [k] indicates that activation of these consonants distinguished themselves throughout the history of the development of a sound system of English less mobile than sonants.
A partial and even full devocalization of sonorous noisy consonants in initial and final positions appears in such words as: bed.
I n courses of phonetics of P. L adefoged, A.
G imson and A. C ruttenden, the editor of last edition of the textbook A. G imson noticed that only the consonants in intervocalic position are not subject to neutralization, i.e. remain sonorous [Ladefoged, 2001; Gimson, 1980; Cruttenden, 2001]. I n the transcription of the reference text, well-read standard bearer orthoepic RP, P.
Roach notes stunned allophones noisy consonants and approximants in the initial, final positions in a number of other combinations: agreed, considered, and gave up [Journal, 2004].
Special attention should be paid to such process as simplification of clusters. In British English clusters tend to simplify to the following reasons: they are unnatural, marked, difficult to pronounce and they do not meet very often even in the Germanic languages, which constitute an exception to the background of many other languages in the world, with as complication of a cluster of its frequency decreases, the clusters — the last thing that kids learn by mastering their mother tongue [Schreider, 2005]. However, the strategy of simplification of the cluster, elected in England, is to lessen the explosive and its elision, for example: Convincing explanation statistics simplifying clusters by comparison of an initial and final position in a word: in the final position of all English speakers (compare data for different regions and ethnic groups in the UK and U.S.) simplify clusters by elision, as in the initial position, as we have ways of simplifying diverse. In the initial position, as evidenced by the history of language, processes can last for 150 years during which a Middle English period could co-exist 2 variants of the same word. These processes continue: for example theatrical [hw] coexists with the standard [w] in words which, why.
Simplification of clusters — a celebration of sonorant theory, since the syllables are taking shape, the corresponding increase sonorous to the center of a syllable, as recognized by natural and typical for most languages of the world. The history of pronunciation of words according to dictionary XVIII-XIX centuries, revealed manifestations not only such processes as deletions or voicing, but the cyclical processes, as a result of which the words can get the original form, such as with voiced or intervocalic [s] in the word of greasy, the alveolar nasal [n], or with the velar [ng] in the word of fishing [Travkina, 2001].
Gulieva points that Cockney is characterized by an increase in the rate of tapering triphtongization diphthongs before [n]; diphthongization front vowels before [l]. The latter phenomenon is also found in RP and SE. Vocalization solid [l] recently appeared in Cockney and already penetrates into the RP. So [l] > [o] or [u]: milk [milk] > [miok], middle [midl ]> [mido]. In IrE vocalization [l] is quite rare.
Consideration of the processes of change in the sound structure of English showed that they are more intense in Cockney and SE, than RP and IrE [Gulieva, 2007].
Analysis of data on the pronunciation of vowels and consonants in the UK showed that the English sound system develops in line with the general evolutionary paradigm — dephonologisation trait truncation vowels. At the sound structure of modern English opposition in the new consonant to stretch / unstretched sound of consonants, depending on the qualitative-quantitative characteristics of the preceding vowel part of speech and supplies the words beginning to be realized due to compensatory processes in single-syllable words with the structure of the CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) .
Thus, a sound system of British English is now on the verge of radical changes.
Conclusion
The study of the linguistic situation in British range of functioning in English from Old English allows drawing a conclusion about the nature of the interaction intralinguistic and extra linguistic factors, namely: extra linguistic factors accelerate or slow down the changes to the phonetic-phonological and lexical-grammatical levels of English language.
In this course paper we studied changes in consonants during evolution of a sound system of English language. Thus, diachronic analysis revealed that changes in the English sound system are linked to the typological transformation of the whole language system. Through the interaction of phonetic-phonological and lexical-grammatical levels is there rhythmic adaptation to the progressive development of the whole language system. On the basis of a comparative analysis of the processes of transformation in the consonant and vowel system in modern English, it was revealed that in all studied types of pronunciation variation has been an increase and acceleration of consonant modification. Analyzing the modern pronunciation we have come to the following conclusions on the consonant changes:
[r], [l] tend to vocalize not only in American English but also in the southern English, Scottish, Irish and national and regional variants of English;
[j] tends to disappear after [l], [s], [h], and [n];
[p], [t], [k] show tendency for glottalization etc.
These observations prove that the English sound system develops in line with the general evolutionary paradigm — dephonologisation trait truncation vowels. And we can make a conclusion, that consonants continue to change and in future some radical changes can happen.
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