Linguistic Terminology)
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 7, 1999, 4:46 |
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:27:40 -0600 Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
writes:
>......as one of
>the reasons why Brits tend to go for /&/ rather than more /a/-like
>vowels
>when borrowing words with /a/, while Americans tend to go for /A/ or
>something
>like that, because British /&/ is actually closer to that than the
>American /&/ (which
>in many cases is actually fronter and higher than /E/, phonologically
>speaking
Just to mention, my variety of American English doesn't have an /A/
...... i had no idea what one was until my brother demonstrated it for
me.
-Stephen (Steg)
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