| From: | James Campbell <james@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 3, 2000, 11:40 |
On the subject of are/our/hour:
The angle from Dorset almost-RP-speakers would be:
(/&/ = schwa)
are our hour
In careful speech/ /a:(r)/ /aU&(r)/ /aU&(r)/
word stressed
In normal conversation /a:(r)/ /a:(r)/ /aU&(r)/
There is crossover, but maybe not in the same way as for American dialects?
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