Re: Ygyde and philosophical languages

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

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