chronic.linguist

June 12, 2006

Tell me: Do you have a transcription?

{ Linguistics, Movies }

Watched one of the Pink Panther movies tonight. A definite highlight of the films is Inspector Clouseau’s famous pronunciation of room ♫ (he uses a similar vowel ♫ for dog). To a linguist, of course, this begs the question: How would this pronunciation be transcribed?

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