Re: More Ere:tas: The fable of the North Wind and the Sun

D Tse wrote:

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>I think that even in RP the vowel in "butter" and "cut" is /V/...
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>Imperative
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That's what I've always seen it written as. But the vowel I use is /A/,
possibly slightly fronted (Finnish 'a' sounds similar to /Q/ to me) but
I doubt enough to put it into [a]'s terrain.

Tristan