Re: new conlang - " *aiinodbus' "

Staving Tamas Racsko:

> > a  (like "bAt" & "cAn")
>
>   Its usual transcription is /{/ in X-SAMPA or /&/ in CXS. But I
>was told that some pronounce it a bit closer as it were /E/.

At the risk of starting YAEPT, [&] is definitely the normal pronunciation
fo these words in most English dialects. In Northern English, it is more
common, so that, for example "aunt" and "ant" are homophones. No matter how
RP influenced someone's personal speech becomes, someone brought up in the
north of England will tend to retain this trait, and be identifiable by it.
(This applies to me personally).

/&/ realised as [E] is a characteristic of affected upper-class accents of
the  early-to-mid twentieth century. (In such an accent, "century" would
come out as [sEntS)A:re]) Such speech habits are now moribund if not
extinct, except in comic performances.

Pete