On 05.12.2006, 6:49, Pierre Abbat wrote:There were already links to voice-recordings provided in earlier responses (and the links also contained IPA notes), so, if that was sufficient, than they are sufficient. However, most English speakers are not familiar with IPA, and some people have trouble playing .ogg files, so I was trying to elucidate for the benefit of readers who might still be unclear.
> I'm not sure about "hat", or Glaswegian, but I know an Englishman, and
> he pronounces as "a" in "father" a lot of a's I pronounce as "a" in "ash".
Strange that you all speak about phonemes by providing examples how
words are read in different dialects of English. Why not use IPA or at
least voice recording?