Re: CHAT: Rare Phonetics

From: "David Peterson" <DigitalScream@...>

|     I can do this, no problem.  That vowel, though...  I have so much trouble
| pronouncing "weird" vowels (vowels not native to my English or Spanish).  I
| can do [y] and [Y] and sometimes [oe], but these barred vowels (which do NOT
| appear in my English) I can't for the life of me muster.

Oh you meant the vowel!  Incidentally, the high central rounded vowels can be
found in my local Texas English in words like "fool", "school", "tool", "food",
"cool".  But I think that's the tense vowel (the one found in Swedish, that is
/u-/), and you're talking about the lax one.  In that case, it's probably more
like a raised rounded schwa.  It's a tough one because it sounds like it could
be several other more common vowels.

~DaW~


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