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--- In txeqli@y..., Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: > Kevin, what's your dialect? I'm South Midlands (Terre > Haute, Indiana), and my 'aw' is definitly not /a/, that > is to say, the vowel in law, aw, claw is different from > the first vowel of 'father', and is just about the same as > the vowel in 'fall,' 'all.' (I'm sure this latter fact > is weirdly dialectal). Seattle. Which I grew up believing to be pretty close to "Standard Broadcast English", whatever that is/was. We tend to turn t's into d's, and I tend to swallow final sounds like the last half of the last b in "Bob". I think it's pretty similar to Tom Brokaw (NBC News anchor). Anyway, my law, claw, and father are virtually identical 'a' sounds, along with papa, mama, Braun, and Chauncy. Fall and all are slightly shaded towards 'o', as are also and wallet. Kevin