Re: Droppin' D's Revisited

From: "Adrian Morgan"

> In my dialect the word 'gone' is the only word in the language to
> contain a phoneme that appears to be /O:/. There *may* be a very subtle
> voice difference, but I cannot convince myself of it.
>
> gone [gO:n]  -- no other word contains [O:]
I'm not Australian, but in my dialect, this would rhyme with lawn, drawn,
pawn, dawn, Sean, and would possess similar length. I also read once a long
time ago in an ESL book for Spanish speakers that the verb in English is
held *slightly* longer than the other words of the sentence, so maybe that's
what's going on.

It seems that...
[It si:mz D@t...] as opposed to
[It simz D@t...]

(normally I use slashes here, but it appears that D@t slash is a link.)

Kou