Re: CHAT: IPA Question

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:19:25 -0500 "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
writes:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:27:17AM -0500, Steg Belsky wrote:
> > /wr= Of t@ si: D@ wIz@d/
> > /D@ wVn@fl= wIz@d Vv a:z/    > /a:/!
> [a:z] ?! That's totally bizarre, though not unheard of. (Having
> lived with
> a Pittsburgh native a decade ago, I can see why one would pronounce
> things this way. :-P)
> T
-

Well, it may not actually be [a:].  It could be [a@], or [A:], or [A@],
or anything similar.  I've always had a hard time telling whether i use
[a] or [A] in words like "hot", "rock", "god", etc.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "[dZi:@ gItS]!" (about)