Re: CHAT French undies (was: Re: Linguistic Terminology)

Raimundus A. Brown scripsit:

> Southern English /&/ is definitely fronted and higher, tending towards /E/.
> [...]  I think the
> southern English variety is much the same as monophthongal American
> varieties.
I don't think so.  General American /&/ is a *low* front vowel, as low
as /A/ but front instead of back.  I at least have no central /a/
at all.

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)