APPENDIX ONE


Scansions (in RP pronunciation of Standard English) for the samples in Chapter 4.

1.  | Hi. | How are | you? |

2.  | John, we’ve been | worried a | bout you. | How | are you?

3.  I’m | spending | Christmas at | home.

4.  | What’s your | name?

5.  What’s | 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 | ty’s a | mystery | cat,

  He’s | called The | Hidden | Paw.


13.  There’s a | whisper down the | line at e | leven thirty- | nine,

  When the | Night Mail’s | ready to de | part,

  Saying, | “Skimble, where is | Skimble, has he | gone to hunt the | thimble?

  We must | find him, or the | train can’t | start!”

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