Re: [YAPT] Judge my vowels

Me> Huh.  A word spelt |bätt| is pronounced [bat] in Swiss German?
Me> Is this a case of the orthography not catching up to a sound change,
Me> or just standard orthography applied to a non-standard dialect, or
Me> what?

JMW> I'd say that Swiss German [&] is more open than English [&], but it's
JMW> still different from Italian [a],

But I thought that |ä| represented /e/ or /E/, not /&/, in German orthography.
So I'm guessing Swiss differs from High even in orthographic
conventions . .

-Marcos