Re: Country names
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 16:01 |
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> > [Qstreili@] with au as the o in lost not as the au in cause say all my
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> I'm afraid I can't tell any difference between the two, when short.
There is no difference in some dialects. When I'm saying "Australia"
naturally, the "au" sounds just like the "a" in "father", which
is also the same as the "o" in "lost" and the "au" in "cause".
"Short o" and "ä/â" are just indistinguishable in my idiolect;
"cot" and "caught" sound completely identical. So "Australia" comes out
something like [As'trejlj@].
When I'm trying (and no doubt failing miserably) to sound like an Aussie,
it's more like [Os'tr&lj@], but that [O] sound does not exist at all in my
natural accent.
-Mark
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