Re: New Try from a New Guy

Joseph Fatula scripsit:

> Is the first vowel sound in American English "father" [a]?  The way that
> sounds normal to me doesn't seem to have any diphthongization at all.
Most Americans use [A] here, but in Boston they say [a].

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