phoneticist

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In the 1956 musical My Fair Lady, phoneticist Henry Higgins is baffled when, after enduring months of his hectoring put-downs, his protege-cum-victim Eliza Doolittle finally bites back.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2019

A musical was involved, and not just any musical — “My Fair Lady,” the American blockbuster about the caustic British phoneticist and the cockney flower seller.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2018

"Thank God I'm a professional phoneticist," he says.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the same time, an incipient fight broke out on the other side of the arc of tables between the head of the language department at Mallorysport Academy and a spinsterish amateur phoneticist.

From Little Fuzzy by Piper, H. Beam