Re: easy sounds

--- Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:

> # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> > I've never heard about a language without the
> sound [a](do you know if there are?) so it is
> probably also easyto produce
>
> English doesn't have [a], though it does have [A]
> and [{]. It doesn't seem to be easy for native
> English
> speakers to produce, as generally when they try to
> produce
> it (e.g. in pronouncing Spanish words) they come up
> with,
> surprise surprise, [A] or [{] (in America, usually
> the
> former).

English has /a/, at least I think the words "on", and
"father", and many others contain this sound.

~elliott


		
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