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From: Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
> The pronunciation of such words differ from lect to lect - some
> even pronounce
> "fire" with a monophthong as [fA:] - but it's probably most commonly
> bisyllabic; RP [faj.@] (at least the kind of RP they teach furriners).
Foreign RP has /aj@/? My lect has /Aj@/ which is realised something
closer to [Vj@]. I think that's an artifact of my trying to avoid
flattening my /Aj/ to the local /a/, and moving it in the opposite
direction instead.
Paul