Re: CHAT: [O]
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 3, 2000, 16:16 |
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On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 07:51:59AM -0600, Danny Wier wrote:
[snip]
> I've also heard, this time in "Middle American" (the kind of English you
> hear on national TV and radio), a rounding of the vowel in "stop", thus
> [stQp] (not quite [stOp]), instead of the expected [stAp].
>
> Is this a new trend in American pronunciation? A sign of unification
> between the Englishes of the world?
[snip]
I have no idea... but this kind of vowel rounding sounds British to me.
T