) I'm tentatively describing that as "tense a" rather than "ah": ... that have a split short-a system have their tense /& ^/. By Jove, I think you're right! Well, or at least it's a proper subset of that /&

And, in some dialects (including a dwindling subset of the ... follow the vowel that whole "can't"/"pass"/"bath" sort of class. I'm tentatively describing that as "tense a" rather than

It's my understanding that in U.S. dialects that don't have a tense-/& ^/ versus lax-/& / distinction, /&/ is usually tense in all contexts for Northern Cities speakers, and tense before nasals and ... context I mean

jk < I think an argument could be made that you can't say /y/ (the ASCII IPA representation of the phoneme in ... that the phoneme /u/ is being realized phonetically as (y), but I'd say you're just listening in the wrong language.

There continues to be an interesting difference in pronunciation: The *Collins English Dictionary* and the *Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary* show the British pronunciation of the in to be /&/ (the vowel in "sand").

Hello ssittoesl! >>eg. go went gone. In Chinese, you supplement the word "GO" with additional word if you want to say someone "has gone" etc.. The integrity of the word "GO" is preserved. Hehe, interesting you just picked out a very