Re: Not YAEPT: "draughts"
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 26, 2007, 8:17 |
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On 1/26/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> This word is not common over here (we call the game "checkers"), but
> if it were it would be /dr&fts/. In Rightpondian, does it tend to
> have an /&/ or an /a/ - BAT or BATH?
I'd say the vowel is BATH.
Meaning of course, that those who have "broad A" (roughly: the South)
will have the same vowel as in PALM, while those who don't (roughly:
the North) will have the same vowel as in TRAP.
(For me, BATH and PALM are the same, FWIW, so I have [A:] -- or
whatever it is -- in "draughts".)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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