Re: Lax counterpart of [&]?

At 06:35 AM 9/15/03 -0400, you wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:15:59PM -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
> > > I (Isidora) was not the original enquirer.
> >
> > Oh, whoops.  Sorry.
> >
> > > I am pretty new to the list and had no idea
> > > that most people used & to represent ash.  Now I know.
>
>It didn't make you curious when people said they pronounced (say) 'mat' as
>(X-SAMPA) /m&t/? Or do you just have the self-restraint necessary to
>abstain from EPTs?
It wasn't self-restraint.  I think that it was simply not knowing what was
going on at first, because at first people were talking about how they
pronounced /&/ in their own British (or perhaps sometimes Australian)
dialect.  No example words containing /&/ were given.  I did think that it
was extremely odd, because I was not aware that any dialect of English
contained a low front rounded vowel, but I am not that familiar with
British dialects.  It wasn't until someone gave the example of "pat"
containing /&/ that I became certain that something had to be wrong.

Isidora