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Thread #150042   Message #3657703
Posted By: VirginiaTam
06-Sep-14 - 05:47 AM
Thread Name: Tackling Tam Lin: Anais Mitchell
Subject: RE: Tackling Tam Lin: Anais Mitchell
The lyrics she performs are written as "Carterhaugh." Pronunciations and our interpretations of sounds vary all over.

My first and several subsequent hearings of Fairport Convention version of Tam Lin, I assumed the word was Carterhall. It was not until I read the lyrics could I actually hear the distinction in pronunciation.

Having lived in UK for over a decade, I still have trouble hearing distinctions. My husband's English pronunciation of the shwa "a" sound (ah) in many words, still sounds like "ar" to me.