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In English, "lox" means 'smoked salmon'. Yes and no. I thought that what made it lox was curing it in brine and that smoking it was actually optional. Ah, really? I had no idea. I had always been told that what lox is is smoked

I certainly hear "marry" as different from the other two. ... close to my "merry", but probably there is a difference. I hear something between a "slight" difference and very different. I think the distinction is

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

) 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 /&

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

I believe that what Jerry is referring to is the ... this, but a recording by Mr. Hamm may prove enlightening. You can be skeptical, but it's the case: I (in general) have /A/ before a voiced stop (and in ) and /a/ before a voiceless one. That

Defining /A./ as the vowel phoneme used in "cot", "bother", ... have the same phoneme. There are dialects where they don't. That's not a definition of turned-script-a. It's a statement of how turned-script-a is

Note that the spelling of "Sara" suggests the "Mary" vowel, unlike the spelling of "Farrah (Fawcett)", which I pronounce with the "marry" vowel. But... but ... you and I both pronounce "Aaron" with

I have something close to (A.) in "bother" as well ... rounded enough to be more (A.) than (A), I think. I like to remind myself that the phonetics books tell us the rounding of the vowels on the "back" side of the