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Re: USAGE: YAEPT: Re: Diversity and uniformity AND No rants! (USAGE: di"f"thong) -- responses to Andreas and Ray.

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Friday, June 2, 2006, 22:06
On 6/2/06, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> Southeastern dialects (and RP) of English tend to have [A:] instead of > [&] in a variety of odd places, generally before fricatives, but fairly > arbitrarily. Hence 'grass', 'bath', 'path', 'laugh' are [grA:s], > [bA:T], [pA:T] and [lA:f]. It's inconsistent though, and I don't know why.
Yup; have you read JC Wells' book? Fascinating stuff. Incidentally, "Southeastern dialects" is a somewhat ambiguous phrase, since the English of the Southeastern US is rather different from that of the Southeastern part of Britain. :) -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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