Re[2]: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

At 9:13:31 AM on Thursday, January 29, 2004, Miguel
Carrasquer wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:47:47 +0000, Richard Wordingham
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>>And where does <father> come from?

> Apparently that's unclear. Unlike other words with /A/ in
> British English (calm, halve, dance, grant, chance, staff,
> class, bath, last etc.), which have /æ/ in American
> English, <father> has /A/ in America too.

Small correction: <calm> has /A/ in AE; so do <balm> and
<psalm>

Brian