Dylan Nicholson infrared: "Crèche", always in RobertE's UK sense, often retains its French grave accent and the vowel is closer to that of "air" rather than "mesh". In Aus. I've only ever heard it pronounced

I have no regional accent that I'm aware of - I talk just like they do on television and in ... vowel sound within the words in question, so I can't believe it's a regional thing that's causing me this dispute. It's not quite

i hit e beet u put u boot Of course in English (general American anyway), these pairs of vowels are not distinguished simply by length. The ... of them also pronounce "milk" as "melk" (mElk) and often use the "liquid

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I've been noodling around the net but there's too much for me to take in. I'm interested in knowing how ... on aue had a spectrogram made of them saying 'mary merry marry' how similar and how different might they look? When I

It's not a matter of "how some British newspapers think 'macho'should be pronounced," but how the British actually pronounce it. (snip dictionary links) I think you are giving too much credit to we (us) Britishers. Either

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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