"Ersters" is definitely rhoticized in the Fred and Ginger version. I guess I was too tired to waffle, and I suppose it's possible that the Gershwins really did mean something ... they couldn't spell otherwise, something like

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

It's not as bad as that. Many, if not most people, will recognize that "ah" as the "father" vowel. But how many ways are there in the English-speaking world to pronounce "father"? I see the point of

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

With whatever vowel of their dialect they think is best expressed by "AH", of course. Yes, as a communication of pronunciation "AH" is useless. It's not as bad as that. Many, if not most people, will recognize that

To me American pronunciations of "cot" generally sound either a ... of an American accent has something close to my "cat". I have a typical American accent. When you listen to my pronunciation of "caught" which is the

To me American pronunciations of "cot" generally sound either a ... of an American accent has something close to my "cat". I have a typical American accent. When you listen to my pronunciation of "caught" which is the

Skitt filted: I'm also fluent in Cat (and the related Mountain Lion), and have a serviceable smattering of conversational Coyote..r You'll have noticed then, that while Cat contains a wide variety of vowel sounds, they don't bother

In classical Latin pronunciation as understood today, "C" would be ... if that was a long vowel and the otherwise. I didn't think the Romans did stress. I thought (in poetry at least) it was all to do with long and short vowels -

I imagine the way the Romans said "Boadicea" was very ... fact, very close to "Boudicca" apart from the extra vowel. In classical Latin pronunciation as understood today, "C" would be a K sound, not a G sound as