Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

Hi!

Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> writes:
> I'm Aussie*. When you say both lore and law as /lO:/, you cannot tell
> the difference between ar-ended and aahless words. So before consonants,
> they are all aahless, and before vowels all aahful.
Very interesting.  In my dialect of German, it's almost the same.  I
pronounce `fad' and `Fahrt' equally.  So when I try to use an alveolar
trill (e.g. to immitate other dialects), I sometimes accidentally
pronounce `fad' as [fart] (no, it's not English...).  It only happens
after `a' in my dialect.

**Henrik