Re: þe getisbyrg adres

Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> Philip Newton wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:23:54 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson
>> <bpj@...> wrote:
>>
>>>> Hence also the preserved distinction between the
>>>> THOUGHT and LOT vowels, and the merging of FATHER with TRAP
>>>> rather than LOT! :)
>>>
>>
>>
>> Where did you get the words THOUGHT, LOT, FATHER, TRAP from? Is there
>> a sort of standardised set of words to illustrate certain vowels?
>>
>> For example, the merger of "THOUGHT" with "LOT" I've usually heard
>> described as the "caught-cot merger", rather than "thought-lot", for
>> example.
>>
>> Or did you make up the example words yourself?
>
>
> It's not me who made them up but John C. Wells, professor
> in phonetics in London.  You can see the whole set in
> the Longman pronunciation dictionary written by him, or
> in his monumental 3-volume "Accents of English", which I
> highly recommend.  If everyone read that the number of
> EPT threads would decline dramatically! ;)

What's wrong with EPT threads(redundant)? I find them interesting...

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