Re: OT: "Claw" (was "I'm new at this")

Michael David Martin scripsit:

>     Well, for what it's worth (and I'm not familiar with the notation above)
> I pronounce the 'a' in claw the same as the 'a' in 'father' or the 'o' in
> 'dog' or 'clod'.  It's that 'ah' sound you make when the doctor tells you to
> open up and say "ah".
Right: you are a Californian.  Being a fortysomething Easterner, I use
a vowel you don't have: it's higher in the mouth and with rounded lips.
It appears in "dog" and "claw".  If I were a Canadian or a Brit, I'd
use it in "clod" too, but pronounced shorter.

You may use this vowel in "Awwwwwww!", the sound of disappointment,
as distinct from "Ahhhhhhh!", the sound of satisfaction.

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Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is
dramatically overdescribed.  Still other languages are simultaneously
overdescribed and underdescribed.  Welsh pertains to the third category.
        --Alan King