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Meeting at night
Task C - our comments
| quench its speed i' the slushy sand. |
/kwentʃ ɪts spi:d ɪ ðə
slʌʃɪ sænd/ |
'Quench' and 'slushy' can be said to be onomatopoeic of
the noise the boat makes as it hits the wet sand. The voiceless stop at
the beginning of 'quench' represents the sudden initial sound of impact,
which will be overly noisy. The following noise as the boat scrapes through
the sand will be longer, though still not very loud. The voiceless affricate
at the end of 'quench' and the voiceless fricatives in 'slushy' are then
onomatopoeic of the later part of the noise the boat makes as it moves
through, and comes to a stop, in the sand.
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