Re: þe getisbyrg adres

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! ;)


/BP 8^)
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