Re: USAGE: German VhC pronunciation

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/.

                                                    Andreas

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