Re: Orthography Question)

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:42:56 +0100 Joshua Shinavier
<jshinavi@...> writes:
>> Actually, over here in my "subdialect"/accent of American English,
>"ash"
>> and "and" are pronounced [E@S] and [E@nd], where [E@] is the same
>> diphthong as in "bale" and "bear".
>And where are you?  Myself, I say [ES] and [End] whenever I can get
>away
>with it, but I guess my pronunciation doesn't count :-)
I'm in Brooklyn.  I've also lived out on Long Island, but that was almost
ten years ago.

>> I've never been satisfied with the [E@] representation....it's
>always
>> sounded to me like it starts higher up in the mouth than [E], closer
>to
>> [e]...
>Agreed.  I say [eI].
Hmm...to me it seems that the sound goes down....[e@] i guess.  But
that's probably just another accent difference, i think i've heard people
say [eI].


-Stephen (Steg)

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