Re[2]: [tied] Oddity of English

At 11:33:51 on Friday, 14 October 2005, Andrew Jarrette
wrote:

> Traditionally, English "short a" has always been
> represented as the ligatured /ae/.  But I think that
> deceives many Europeans (especially Germans and Slavs),
> who consistently pronounce it as /E/.

I don't find this at all surprising: in my experience U.S.
/æ/ is often distinctly higher than [æ], though not so high
as [E], /E/ is similarly shifted, in some cases as far as
[I].

Brian