Re: USAGE: front vowel tensing [was: English notation]
| From: | Tommie L Powell <tommiepowell@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 30, 2001, 15:43 |
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 David Peterson writes:
> Now wait a minute... There are people who would
> seriously pronounce it /bæNk/? I've never even thought
> of it that way; always as the long /ej/ (or /ei/). And if I
> stop myself short of the /Nk/ in "bank", I definitely am
> saying /e/, not /æ/.
Me, too, if I'm saying the noun. But if I'm saying the verb,
it's /ae/. Try it, and I think you'll agree.
-- Tommie