Re: Status of Italian rising

Dirk Elzinga scripsit:

> Northern varieties of both American and
> British English may realize these vowels as monophthongs.
Really?  Wow.  I've always known that my long-e and long-o are tenser
than that of other Americans, but I've never heard anyone from these parts
using monophthongs.  Or do you mean "Northern" in a geographical rather
than a dialect-name sense?  I didn't think CanE did that either.

(IOW, I use [eI] and [oU], not [EI] and [OU] or the like.)

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