Re: tSat: Re: 'tEst 'pli:z ig'nOr\

Mark J. Reed skrev:

 > While in the general area, I just now noticed that FATHER
 > is lumped in with PALM in Wells' lexical sets. Those are
 > quite different for me; for one thing, I pronounce the L
 > in PALM, or at least lateralize the vowel; but for
 > another, said vowel is higher and further back. Words like
 > "PALM" are, in fact, as close as I get to having an [O] in
 > my 'lect; all the usual candidates have merged with [a].

This is probably the reason that in the "Longman
Pronunciation Dictionary" Wells has replaced PALM with
FATHER as keyword. In LPD itself he even gives [pQlm] as a
minority pronunciation -- both Brit and Murkin it seems.
I thus usually use FATHER as keyword nowadays.

BTW do American kids spell that word {fother}? :-)
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