--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> Whoever complained about [tæp dansiN] needs to
> adjust their
> stereotypes. To the untrained American ear, UK
> dialects do sound as
> if someone did a global search and replace of [æ]
> with [a], but if you
> listen closely you'll find that [æ] is alive and
> well in even the
> poshest of British tongues. It even shows up in
> several places where
> we Murrikans have [a], especially in relatively
> recent borrowings like
> "taco" (where we approximate the Spanish while the
> RightPondians use
> phonological analogy with the corresponding "short"
> a's).
>
Indeed. My pronunciation of /'t&k.o/ drives my
L2-Spanish Texan wife bonkers.
Geoff
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