Re: BBC does it again

On Jun 9, 10:59 am, Ruud Harmsen <realemailons...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Thu, 5 Jun 2008 20:54:08 -0700 (PDT): "Peter T. Daniels"
<gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

  /gw&n't&n@m@U/ is an entirely natural transfer of the Spanish
pronunciation into British English, as well as a fairly plausible
spelling pronunciation (if one knows where the stress falls), and
feels entirely comfortable to a British English ear.

Why would you not render /a/ as /a/?

Because /a/ is the latter vowel in BrE. The father vowel is /A:/

Once again, you are making a _single_ phonemic contrast with two
_different_ symbols -- lettershape AND length-mark. One (and only one)
of them is redundant. Either you distinguish the vowels by quality, OR
you distinguish them by quantity. NOT by both.
.

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