Amanda Babcock wrote:
> The thing that completely confused me in third grade phonetics was
> their insistence that (IIRC) "father" and "ostrich" contained
> different vowels in their first syllables. It wasn't till years later
> that I found out the problem was due to my location - the Pittsburgh
> dialect does not have that distinction!
My response: "You were explicitely taught 'phonetics' at school? As a
subject? How wierd!" :-)
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