APPENDIX ONE
Scansions (in RP pronunciation of Standard English) for the samples in
Chapter 4.
1. | Hi. | How are | you? |
2. | John, weve been | worried a | bout you. | How | are you?
3. Im | spending | Christmas at | home.
4. | Whats your | name?
5. Whats | your name?
6. | Waltz time is | one-two-three, | one-two-three.
(In some western and south-eastern speech this would be:
| Waltz | time is | one-two-three, | one-two-three. )
7. | Jane | Austen. | Pride and | Prejudice.
(in some west-country dialects:
| Pride and | Preju | dice. )
8. | Jack | Horner. | Little Jack | Horner.
9. | Little Jack | Horner | sat in the | corner.
10. | Jack and | Jill
Went | up the | hill
To | fetch a | pail of | water;
| Jack fell | down
And | broke his | crown
And | Jill came | tumbling | after.
11. | Two | four | six | eight,
| Who do | we app | reci | ate?
12. Ma | cavi | tys a | mystery | cat,
Hes | called The | Hidden | Paw.
13. Theres a | whisper down the | line at e | leven thirty- | nine,
When the | Night Mails | ready to de | part,
Saying, | Skimble, where is | Skimble, has he | gone to hunt the
| thimble?
We must | find him, or the | train cant | start!
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