Re: E and e (was: A break in the evils of English (or, Sturnan is beautiful))
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 2, 2002, 18:37 |
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At 14:35 2002-05-01 +0000, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>> The sound most Swedes use for
>>'e' in 'gosse' is essentially this sound. I have on occasion used
>>mirror-image [e] -- actually a retracted [e] -- for this sound.
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>I'd be one of those Swedes.
I'm not. My sound differs in being rounded. It also can appear in
stressed syllables.
>If [mirrored e] is retracted [e], what's [mirrored epsilion]? Retracted [E]
>would suggest itself, but I assume that's not so?
Theoretically it is an undefined unrounded central vowel which is more open
than [@], but it is traditionally used for the sound in RP English _nurse_.
/BP 8^)>
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