Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

David Peterson wrote:
>
>In a message dated 4/6/01 8:53:56 PM, hr_oskar@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
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><< Mm, no; 'pot', 'lot', 'rather' all have [Q], AFAIK. [A] is rare or non-
>
>existent in English dialects (right?). >>
>
>If [A] is the sound I think it is, it exists in every American dipthong
>with
>an "a" sound in it.  (i.e.: kite, light, how, now)  Also, the words "pot",
>"lot" and "rather" EACH have a different sound in my American dialect: the
>first is your [Q], I believe; the second is the backwards c; the last is ae
>(like in cat).
I'm pretty sure that in most varieties of English all those diphthongs begin
in [a].

                                                          Andreas
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