Re: New Try from a New Guy
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 15, 2002, 14:24 |
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On Sunday 15 December 2002 2:10 pm, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 06:03:16AM -0800, Joseph Fatula wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > Well, for me, "cot" is definitely a back vowel, while "father" is further
> > frontwards. But, yes, "cut" is /V/.
>
> And I grew up with [a] for "father" and "cut", whereas "cot" and "caught"
> are [A]. You see how little it means when you compare a vowel to "standard
> English"? :-)
>
>
Heh. I speak something very similar to standard British English, so I have no
problem with it. But you can't expect everyone to know the IPA, so what else
are you going to use?
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