Labio Dental Fricative
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.....
This was in response to a post by The Inner Minx, and the ensuing comments thereon.
"Soubriquet said... Oh , hello, me again. See there was a misunderstanding about Labio-Dental Fricative, and a correspondent suggested it was suggestive, and that my comment was naughty. It was the Labio bit that brought about the tut-tuttage.So, let me clarify.Ladies, this is NOT about dentists in your undercarriage, the labile constituent of a Labio-dental fricative is your bottom lip... No, the one on your FACE...Labio-dental fricative describes a sound, made by passing air through a narrowed channel (fricative) modified by the bottom lip (labio) meeting the upper teeth.(Dental)So Labio-dental fricative is a linguistic term to describe a sound. In English, the letters F and V are labio-dental fricatives...The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band sang a song of that title. To which I referred.
Sheesh! surely you all knew that?"
Labio-Dental Fricative (Stanshall/Innes)
Cannibal chiefs chew Camembert cheese
'cause chewing keeps 'em cheeky
Big Fat Fred sticks fur to his head
'cause he thinks fur makes him freaky
Benjamin Bland and his Bugle Band blow the blues bi-weekly
(Yee hoo hoo!)
How many pies can a porpoise poise on purpose if she pleases?
I got up at eight, it was half past two
I said to myself, "Well, how do you do?"
I've gotta get on, so I soon got off
Stuck a clean shirt on, and had a good cough
Back at the boozer, a bloke I knew
Said he knew a secret no one knew
He pinched some snuff, and he sniffed and sighed
So I pinched his snout, and he replied,
"Cannibal chiefs chew Camembert cheese
'cause chewing keeps 'em cheeky
Big Fat Fred sticks fur to his head
'cause he thinks fur makes him freaky
Benjamin Bland and his Bugle Band blow the blues bi-weekly
How many pies can a porpoise poise on purpose if she pleases?"
Here am I a sailor
Seabirds fly above me
Listen to their cry
See them in the sky above me
Here am I a sailor
Fishes swim below me
Even while I sleep
Growing in the deep below me
I rode a long worm to the end of the line
I asked Tin Man if he'd tell me the time
He took off his hat, and he took off his head
Took off Max Bygraves, here's what he said,
"You take first right and second left."
The man in the moon says, "How's your chest?"
The man in the sun says, "Have another one!"
So we're all tanked up and singing along
Cannibal chiefs chew camembert cheese
'cause chewing keeps 'em cheeky
Big Fat Fred fixes fur to his head
'cause he thinks fur makes him freaky
Benjamin Bland and his Bugle Band blow the blues bi-weekly
(Mmmmm, mm)
How many pies can a porpoise poise on purpose if she pleases?
can you recommend a specialist ??
ReplyDeletei think my labio is in some serious need of a good dental fricative.
Sheesh, I did not but thanks for adding to my store of knowledge. I'm sure I'll be able to trot it out sometime.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment on my shingles post, It turned out to be a false alarm and possibly spider bites?
Your story of enduring the shingles so many years ago is what I remember about shingles and while the modern treatment helps ameliorate the disease somewhat it is still very bad. Thanks for leaving the comment.
Frickity Lab from Dent?
ReplyDeleteNow I've been to Dent, it's a beautiful village in North Yorkshire, Frickity Lab? Sure you're not a Red Setter?
jmb: Eeek! Shingles is singularly (or even plurally) nasty, but SPIDER BITES!!! Yech! Bleurgh, Agh. I shall stick to my policy of showing no mercy to bathtub spiders, it's the whirlpool, no escape. As for those Aussie redbacked dunny spiders? nope. just too fearsome to contemplate. Why are the little multileggers so vicious?
Oh. silly question. They've heard of the whirlpool. And the sucky vacuum...