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Betty Botter is a tongue-twister written by Carolyn Wells.〔The Jingle Book, Carolyn Wells (Macmillan, New York), 1899, page 86〕〔"A Book of American Humorous Verse" edited by James Whitcomb Riley, Duffield & Company, New York, 1917, page 169, in which Ms. Wells' authorship and Macmillan's original copyright is acknowledged.〕 It was originally titled "The Butter Betty Bought." By the middle of the 20th century, it had become part of the Mother Goose collection of nursery rhymes.〔The Oxford dictionary of nursery rhymes, edited by Iona and Peter Opie, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1951; page 84-85〕 ==Construction== The construction is based on alliteration, using the repeated two-syllable pattern /'b__tə 'b__tə 'b__tə/ with a range of vowels in the first, stressed syllable. The difficulty is in clearly and consistently differentiating all the vowels from each other. :They are almost all short vowels: :/æ/ batter :/e/ better - Betty :/ɪ/ bitter - bit o' :/ɒ/ Botter :/ʌ/ butter :with one long vowel /ɔ:/ 'Bought a' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Betty Botter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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