Re: Sorting out those phonetics.
| From: | Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 25, 2000, 8:06 |
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At 09:16 PM 5/20/2000, Kristian wrote:
> >Can we agree that it's somewhere in the vicinity of
> >[@u] and leave the fine-tuning open-ended for now?
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>Dunno... I'm not the expert on Aussie dialects. I only know (or
>think I know) what I have heard in Queensland. Though [@u] sounds
>like something from Canada, not Australian: 'How [@b@ut] sailing
>a [b@ut]...'
Actually I think <boat> would be [bout] in Canada; [@b@ut] is right for
<about>, though.
Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo