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What's the general distribution of people who do, or do ... simply down to care with one's diction, wherever you are? There's one who pronounces them identically (when they're unstressed) in Northern New Mexico. Maybe a phonologist

This is a non-sequitur argument. That the French word "lingerie" is pronounced in English with the "ay" of "hay," How strange. I would have thought the main oddity about the English pronunciation of lingerie was the

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

I wonder which variety of English CyberCypher/Franke would consider "dumbed-down ... rabbit" or the version in which people say "Welsh rarebit." He wouldn't be able to tell; the pronunciation is identical. Three

rewboss infrared: In American English there are fairly significant differences among different accents in how /&/ and /E/ are pronounced. And for many foreign students (Germans certainly) the difference is infinitesimal. In a long-ago thread

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

Since your experience stems from NY, I'm not surprised. In California, the "father" pronunciation is quite common (the Latino influence, you know). Huh? The Spanish "a" is noticeably different from both the AmE

Since your experience stems from NY, I'm not surprised. In California, the "father" pronunciation is quite common (the Latino influence, you know). Huh? The Spanish "a" is noticeably different from both the AmE

Since your experience stems from NY, I'm not surprised. In California, the "father" pronunciation is quite common (the Latino influence, you know). Maybe so, but query whether my PNYPS /&/ ('cat') is not closer to