Re: Wow! It's a Yogh!


"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:43C970B0.5179@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Prai Jei wrote:
>>
>> Joseph W. Murphy (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in
>> message
>> <1o5we5ywugvep.1m5jvfcy6k7zf.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> > Her aunt, with a gasp,
>> > Replied: "It's a wasp,
>>
>> That fails in the common UK English pronunciation where "gasp" and "wasp"
>> do
>> not rhyme. (The /a/ of "wasp" is pronounced closer to /o/.)
>
> It's neither rounded nor backed. It's just /a/ [a].

Prai was talking about UK English, where it is both rounded and backed.
'Wasp' has the same vowel as 'lost', and in RP, that vowel is slightly
higher and rounder than [O].

> "Gasp" has (GenAm)
> /&/, (NYC) /eh/ (both [e@] or however one transcribes the sound that
> isn't [&]).
> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx


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