From: tgpedersen
Message: 41327
Date: 2005-10-13
> >..................Scanian has /aI/ for Swedish and Danish /i:/.
> > But I am recounting all aspects of English that make it
> nonconforming among Indo-European languages. For example, all Indo-
> European languages but English have an "i" that is pronounced like
> our "ee", and "a" is never pronounced /ey/, always "ah" or very
> similar (e.g. with "long" or "short" subvarieties which are not too
> divergent from the "ah" sound), among all other Indo-European
> languages.