"father" vowel) I remember going, when I liked organized religion, to the C of E St Barnabas in Oxford just for the smell and the routines! I remember talking to the Catholic priest in Dulverton, Devon, way back when, and him saying what

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Is that where thet pronounciation of "t" as "d" in some American dialects comes from, pronouncing "water" as "wahdr", for example? More precisely, most Americans seem to merge intervocalic /t/ and /d/. But

friends, I presume "passkey" is usually just pronounced "pass key". ... how Isay "ASCII", so I wouldn't say that they rhyme. "Pass key" would be pronounced with equal stress on each word,

Huh? The Spanish "a" is noticeably different from both the ... some influencing in New York (Largest City in America) too? You are correct, sir, but Mexicans do not dominate their number, unlike the Latino communities in the West and

No, but there are some who pronouce both "cot" and ... help him by suggesting the Zulu word "ithole" - "calf". That's a separate issue, innit? The vast majority of Americans use the "cat" vowel

There aren't any English speakers (in the US or elsewhere) who merge cot, caught, *and* cart, are there? No, but there are some who pronouce both "cot" and "caught" in the same way that non-rhotic spreakers pronounce

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