Re: English and French vowels

Christophe écrit:

>You're correct. And believe me, I love mine too, and can readily
>produce it if needed :) . But it's not part of my active phoneme
>inventory anymore, just like /A/ isn't either (but still having it
>somewhere in me helped me a lot when learning Dutch ).
For what it's worth, the native speaker here still distinguishes
between "pâtes" and "pattes" and "âme" and "flamme". *And* she also
maintains "brun" vs. "brin". But she's my age (40 sump'n), and doin'
the expat thang, so we'll just sit here in our cranky little
conservative French enclave and warp young minds.

Vive le /9~/, vive le /A/!

Kou