} "Raymond S. Wise" (Email Removed) wrote in message } }> }> Since the pronunciations are identical, this might confuse some people. } But }> it should be easy enough to memorize the distinction in spelling. "Used }

Fonzie, might I convince you to help me raise objections to linguists' blithe and insulting decision to use the word "Philadelphia" to refer to the entire Upper Chesapeake pronunciation region? You think I don't know? I tell them

I can't claim that my accent is 'typical' in general, since I am part of the minority that is MINMINM(tm) and BACINTC(tm)(1). (1)"(Be able) can is not (tin) can". By the way, contrary to popular belief, there are those of us

Hi everybody, In one of my classes, I am doing ... post it here. Thank you in advance for any help! If you think about the meanings of "allophone" and "phoneme," you'll realize this is an impossible request. What

I can say this much: I would feel deeply insulted if anyone thought I spoke like Steve Irwin. The most distinctive feature I've noticed in Steve Irwin's speech (compared to other Australians I've known and heard) is that his /a/ sound

Phonetically, of course, the only place most of us in the US have a length contrast is in pairs like "cap" and "cab", where the only phonetic difference is that the vowel in the second is longer. That may be true of "most

There are a few words which tend to have the ... the same) - half, halve, calf, can't, shan't, banana, rather. Also there are still a handful of AmE speakers that follow the southern England approach (mainly in Eastern New England). Yes,

"Have" has the lax vowel of "can" (be able), while "halve" has the tense vowel of "can" (= BrE tin). Sorry, Richard, I just don't get it. Not always the teacher's fault. Color to a blind man, or some

That makes sense to me too, but it suggests that ... New England accents too). That (e@) does sound rather quack-like. How do you write your cat, half, chat, that vowel, RF? I mean in your phonetic description? You'd have to check with

Most of the "ah" class comes from recent loanwords like "pasta". "Pasta" may be a good example of AmE "foreign a", but I don't think it's a good example of the "ah" class. I think it's