Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 20:23 |
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:29:39PM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > > Anglophones do better pronounce _ä/æ_ as /&/ to be on the safe side! :)
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> Sorry, I missed the beginning of this thread; in what language's
> orthography is this ä/æ? Certainly the Norwedish variety is nothing
> like [&]?
My mistake. Apparently final and pre-<r> <ä> is indeed pronounced [&] in
Swedish, and it is elsewhere [E], which is reasonably similar. I was
confusing <ä> with <å>.
-Mark