Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
The best way to approach the phonetics of english dialects is with a clean slate. My dialect also has a just-about pure length distinction between say dad andmad, bud and barred, shed and shared,
Does this mean you're from the southern US? --"This historic ground in New Mexico, scene of the first atomic explosion on earth...gave the most effective answer today to Japanese propaganda that radiations were responsible for deaths even after the day of the explosion, Aug. 6, and that persons entering Hiroshima had contracted mysterious maladies due to persistent radioactivity." -- NY Times, 12 Sep 45