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The following is the pronunciation standard I aspire to; it can be described as "standardized modern Philadelphian | The following is the pronunciation standard I aspire to; it can be described as "standardized modern Philadelphian". | ||
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Revision as of 23:35, 28 July 2018
The following is the pronunciation standard I aspire to; it can be described as "standardized modern Philadelphian".
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Additional tense-A words
- /æ/ before /m n f s θ/ in closed syllables, except and, can, began, ran, swam, math
- e.g. example, answer, ant, trample, example, half, mass, past, bath
- calve, halve
- castle, fasten, raspberry
- bad, glad, mad
CLOTH words
- cough, doff, off, scoff, toff, trough, often
- croft, loft, oft, soft, toft
- coffer, offer, proffer
- office, coffee, toffee
- across, boss, cross, doss, dross, emboss, floss, fosse, gloss, hoss, lacrosse, loss, moss, Ross, toss
- Boston, foster, cost, frost, lost
- broth, cloth, froth, moth, sloth, wroth
- along, belong, long, oblong, song, strong, thong, throng, tong, wrong
- dog
- on and words with it: e.g. onward(s), onto, upon, thereon, whereon, hereon
Miscellaneous
can't is sometimes pronounced /kɑnt/ (to help distinguish it from can).