Английская Википедия:How now brown cow
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"How now brown cow" (Шаблон:IPAc-en) is a phrase used in elocution teaching to demonstrate rounded vowel sounds.[1] Each "ow" in the phrase represents the diphthong /aʊ/. English orthography also uses the homophonic spelling "ou" to represent this diphthong in words like "noun" and "cloud". The use of the phrase "how now brown cow" in teaching elocution can be traced back to at least 1926.[2]
The phrase how now itself is an archaic greeting or interrogative expression.[3]
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- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Bagley, Louie: "Elocution do's and dont's", Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1926
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web