Re: CHAT letter names (was: CHAT Etruscana etc)

Henrik Theiling scripsit:

> It is true that some younger people speaking certain, often northern,
> dialects often pronounce 'ä' as [e:] nowadays, but that's (still)
> dialectal and will not occur in all situations.  E.g. in the
> conditional, most of these dialects do not tolerate the 'lazy'
> pronunciation.
My mother, who was a native speaker (from the Black Forest, right on
the Hesse-Thuringia border) born in 1919, certainly pronounced a" the
same as e except when pronouncing its name.

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