Re: Schwa and [V]: Learning the IPA

Mark J. Reed wrote:

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>> Roger Mills wrote:
>>  > But I wonder if RP uses [6] in "butt, putt, mutt, rut" etc.-- at
>> least when I pronounce them with [6], they sound quite strange.
>>
>> Not, I think, most so-called RP speakers now. It seems strange &
>> affected to me
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>> From this pair of observances I will assume that my /@/=/V/ vowel is
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> not, in fact, [6], as I earlier guessed.  I think it's time to do some
> more investigatin'.

Mine is, I think, a slightly retracted [3].  Or somewhere around that
area.  So, bud [b3_-d] /bVd/.