260ad Roman borders and its relation to the pronunciation of words like “bath” and “strut”
August 20, 2024
260ad Roman borders and its relation to the pronunciation of words like “bath” and “strut”
by Inamate
1 comment
When you get to the former colonies, it gets really super weird.
It’s ‘sort of’ geographic, but with loads of exceptions, depending on where the original colonisers came from in the UK.
>Most varieties of Australian English exhibit only a partial trap-bath split. The words bath, grass and can’t are always pronounced with the “long” /aː/ of father. Throughout the majority of the country, the “flat” /æ/ of man is the dominant pronunciation for the a vowel in the following words: dance, advance, plant, example and answer. The exception is the state of South Australia, where a more advanced trap-bath split is found, and where the dominant pronunciation of all the preceding words incorporates the “long” /aː/ of father.
1 comment
When you get to the former colonies, it gets really super weird.
It’s ‘sort of’ geographic, but with loads of exceptions, depending on where the original colonisers came from in the UK.
>Most varieties of Australian English exhibit only a partial trap-bath split. The words bath, grass and can’t are always pronounced with the “long” /aː/ of father. Throughout the majority of the country, the “flat” /æ/ of man is the dominant pronunciation for the a vowel in the following words: dance, advance, plant, example and answer. The exception is the state of South Australia, where a more advanced trap-bath split is found, and where the dominant pronunciation of all the preceding words incorporates the “long” /aː/ of father.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English#:~:text=Most%20varieties%20of%20Australian%20English,%22%20%2Fa%CB%90%2F%20of%20father.