Re: phonology ?
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 30, 2001, 20:42 |
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At 10:00 pm -0600 29/1/01, Danny Wier wrote:
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>British: [@U]
..and that's only standard southern English.
>American: [Ou]
>Scottish: [o:]
Also [o:] in 'Welsh-English', and common in the spoken English of many
areas of northern England.
>Australian: [EU]
Some of the rural English southern dialects had [o@] or [U@] (both falling
diphthongs, usually represented in 'dialect spelling' as {oä}, until well
into the 20th cent.; but I suspect such pronunciations have now disappeared.
Ray.
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