Re: USAGE: German VhC pronunciation

Andreas Johansson said:
> Quoting "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>:
>
>> (Note that using 'a' to represent /a:/ is relatively rare, and I don't
>> actually know of a form 'Drat'. 'Skat' and 'braten' (and its related
>> forms) are the only forms I can think of that have this orthograpy. I
>> think the digraph 'ah' must be the most common writing for /a:/ by far,
>> just sitting here thinking of examples. The digraph 'aa' occurs in
>> 'Staat', but I can't think of more examples for that one either.)
>
> Well, there's 'Saal', 'Aal', and probably a few more. And a bunch of
> geographical names like 'Saarland' and 'Aachen' (where I live).
>
> As for 'a' for /a:/, there's quite a few - 'Rat', 'Rad', 'Tag', 'mag',
> etc. And there's of course words with 'a'+eszed = /a:s/.
Ah, yes!

I was obviously still suffering from hypocaffeinaemia.

Funny how I would think of 'Skat' (a card game with no Anglo-American
equivalent AFAIK) and 'braten' (a cooking term) before anything else...


-- Mark