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Offtopic, but from the article: "'When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow.' This sentence includes every sound
by losvedir 16y ago
Offtopic, but from the article:
"'When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow.' This sentence includes every sound in the English language."
I see immediately it seems to lack the "oo" of food, so I don't think that's quite right. I would be very interested to see what an actual sentence is that does have all the sounds.
- a-priori 16y agoAlso the hard "G" sound, as in "Gift".
- WilliamLP 16y ago"ch"? "ng"? "g"? "h" (aspirated)? "j"? "o" as in "open"? "q"? "zh" as in "cashmere"? "v"? "w" (as in "wet")? "y" as in "you"?
- jambo 16y agoThat sentence is the beginning of "The Rainbow Passage", which is considerably longer and meant to be a good sampling of English phonemes. http://web.ku.edu/~idea/readings/rainbow.htm http://web.ku.edu/~idea/readings/rainbow.htm http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml#Rainbow http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml#Rainbow "The Rainbow Passage is one of the most common standard reading passages used to test an individual's ability to produce connected speech. Like the My Grandfather passage it is used in speech evaluations, but it is also used in studying accents, reading comprehension, as a speech exercise, and for testing language recognition software." from http://everything2.com/user/Tem42/writeups/The+Rainbow+Passage http://everything2.com/user/Tem42/writeups/The+Rainbow+Passa...
- aswanson 16y agoAlso missing the long "e" vowel sound.
- mkramlich 16y agoHere you go: "When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow of food."
- mkramlich 16y agoupgraded with other reportedly missing sounds: "When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow of good-eatin' food." I'm hungry.