----- Original Message -----
From: "BP Jonsson" <bpj@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: question on sampa representation
> At 20:38 23.3.2003 -0500, Doug Dee wrote:
>
>
> >[ A ] and [ Q ] have the same tongue position, low. [ O ] is higher.
The
> >vowel of "cut" is usually said to be [ V ], the unrounded counterpart of
[ O ].
>
> The transcription of _cut_ with [V] is a holdover from the 19th century.
> Modern English mostly has [6] or even [@], depending on dialect, in this
word
>
Ahem. Modern -American- English. Most British dialects still have [V] and
British-oid dialects, (Australian, New Zealand)