Re: Californian vowels [was Re: Liking German]

At 12.19 p.m. 29.09.2001, you wrote:
><<...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.
I think you'll find it's /b@"kQz/, or /b@kQz/ or /b@k@z/ unstressed, unless
Australia does have those regional differences that eveyone says we don't have.

Tristan, hoping we do and that they become more and more different