Re: Californian vowels [was Re: Liking German]

Quoting D Tse <exponent@...>:

> <<...and "because" as /b@kUz/. I cringe every time he says either of
> them :) >>
>
> << Well, where's he from? That pronunciation of "because" is actually
> widespread in Britain. >>
>
> My dear old acquaintance is from ... Australia, speaks relatively
> normally except for those two words :P Not one of those awful
> stereotypically thick accents, mind you. I think most of the people I
> know pronounce because /b@'kOz/ or /b@'ki-z/ unstressed.
For me, and for most people I know AFAIK, it's more like
/b@'k@z/ (Texan English makes no distinction between schwa
and inverted-v).

I could even imagine a pronunciation like: [pk@z], since
that's what I do for "potato" > [pteidoU].

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