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

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:19:04 -0500, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

>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>

I did have some doubts about the -lm ones: I don't recall ever hearing
"psalm" */sæm/, but I think I've heard "calm" /kæm/ (Merriam-Webster gives
it as "sporadic and old-fash").


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