Re: Californian vowels [was Re: Liking German]

Quoting Robert Hailman <robert@...>:

> John Cowan wrote:
> >
> > Steg Belsky scripsit:
> >
> > > Judy Garland says something like [bikVz], i think.
> >
> > As do I: for me the song rhymes perfectly, as does Miss Muffet.
> > (Some of my compatriots, and almost everybody from Canada, can't
> > rhyme "spider" and "inside her".)
>
> I say [b@kVz], so it still rhymes for me. I say it as [bikVz] when I
> sing that song, though, because... well, it's a valid pronounciation
> for me, just not one I use very often.
Perhaps that suggests that for you the underlying phonemes
are /bik@z/?

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