Re: þe getisbyrg adres

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 05:58:32PM +1000, Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
> In the case of 'father', as far as I know it's a word in a class of it's
> own (dialects with flat a (trap) in class generally still have the broad
> a (father) in father, so that whereas father and rather rhyme for me
> there's people they don't rhyme for...).
I think we should avoid terms like "flat a" and "broad a".  I've heard
both of those used to describe [&], for instance.  Although I do
coincidentally have [&] in "flat" and [a] in "broad", which seems to be
the distinction you're drawing. :)


(No rhyme there for me, btw.  [faDr\=] vs [r&Dr\=])

> \AIR\**. (Note: erV, where V is a vowel, isn't always \RR\.)
Indeed not.  For me, the first syllable of "era" is the same as "air".

-Marcos