Re: THEORY: Ray on ambisyllabicity

And Rosta wrote, quoting myself:

> > No non-Eastern-stater would be caught *dead* saying 'skUl' for school or
> > 'kUl' for cool, both of which are common in Sydney, for example. For
> > non-easterners, [Ul] can *only* occur if the [l] begins a new syllable. I
> > don't know the IPA for the vowel the rest of us use.
>
> I'm a bit confused. [U] is (close to) the vowel you have in _book_
Is it ???
Don't tell me I've got [u] and [U] the wrong way around!
I was absolutely convinced it was [u] in _book_, [U] in _boot_.
<very confused>

> Changing topic, can you tell me whether _chance_ has the vowel in _hat_
> or the vowel in _bra/start/grass_?
As a general rule:
Eastern states --- the former [&]
Other states -- the latter [a:]

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