Re: Ygyde and philosophical languages

On Friday 17 January 2003 6:59 pm, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 01:13:51PM -0500, James Landau wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > > But if it's the same as in
> > >"saw", most people would consider that the same as the vowel of "hot".
> > > And then you've got even more trouble.
> >
> >  I interpret the "all" or "saw" vowel sound as meaning it has that "w"
> > glide at the end -- like the sound people make at something
> > disappointing. (Or, come to think of it, something really cute . . .)
> > Like the vowel sound in "port", just without an R after it. "Hot", on the
> > other hand, mind be interpreted as a pure /a/ . . .
>
> [snip]
>
> OK, I just *cannot* let that past me, no matter how hard I try :-)  I grew
> up with, and am extremely calcified, with pronouncing "hot" as [hAt]
> instead of [hat] (probably a Britishism). Of course, this depends on which
> English idiolect you're talking about; but I believe /o/ as [a] is a
> purely American feature.
>
>
> T
Well, the normal British expression is [hOt].  It is the same vowel as in
saw[sO:], just shorter.

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