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 #2 (permalink) Sun Oct 12, 2008 14:45 pm /e/ sound and /ei/ sound |
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Hi anhgiap,
Most of the time when you find the letter 'a' in a word it is a pretty safe bet that it is either pronounced like the 'a' in bat or in bath. The a-sound in 'mad' sounds quite similar to 'man'.
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| #3 (permalink) Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:57 am /e/ sound and /ei/ sound |
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Hi Anhgiap,
You are exactly right. In that phonetics recording, the "mad - made" pair is out of place. The word "mad" should not have been included because it contains neither the /e:/ nor the /eI/ sound.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=CALD&key=47961&ph=on
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| bat, bath, mad, man |
In American English, the letter "a" is usually pronounced the same way in all four of the words in the quote above. It is pronounced as /æ/ in all four of those words.
The "a" in the word "father" is pronounced as /a:/ and I believe that is the same sound that is used in British English for the word "bath".
The letter "a" is pronounced as /eI/ in words such as "day, "gale", "late", "made" and "potato", for example.
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