Re: USAGE: front vowel tensing [was: English notation]

David wrote:

>     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/.

It's definately /bæ.../ for me, although I'm still scatching my head trying
to decide if I pronounce a nasalized vowel followed by /k/, or if there's a
serious /N/ in there.

It's certainly not /ei/ or /ej/, and /e/ is something that I don't think
ever occurs in simple form in my speech.


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