Re: USAGE: pronouncing "l", "needs washed"

Paul Bennett wrote:
>
> Christophe>>>>>>
>
>         Well, my pronunciation may not be very worth knowing because I'm not a
> native speaker, but I learned to pronounce "walk" with a long vowel
> (something like /wo:k/) whereas I pronounce "wok" with a short vowel
> (/wAk/ or /wOk/).
> <<<<<<
>
> FWIW, as an English speaker (capital E), I have the following vowel rymes:
>
> walk has the same vowel as board, caught and fore
> wok  has the same vowel as hot, flop and gone
>
        Interestingly, I have nearly the same vowel rhymes, except that I would
put 'gone' in the first list, not the second.

> Lars, And or Fabian (having heard me in person) - Can you tell me the ASCII-IPA
> for each of those sounds?
>
        I long to see them, maybe they are the same as me, and I'm not sure of
my pronunciation. Maybe Boudewijn could tell...

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> Pb
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