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Originally Posted by oinknessx
Tell that to dictionary.com's pronunciation of the word "potato".
"Potahto" isn't even in the dictionary.
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tell that to all the english teachers...
po-tah-to is just the pronounciation not the word =)
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Originally Posted by Angel_Light
a vowel after a vowel makes the first vowel strong. So Graal is pronounced like grail. See two vowels same concept. ;o
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I found these
The long back vowel aa as in father, park, calm, path was deeper in the throat. The short vowel u as in cut was an unusual sound, hard to describe, not quite a neutral vowel, and very rare in the world's languages. In the modern form of RP these two vowels have shifted and are now effectively the long and short forms of the same ah vowel.
this was taken from
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node...&lastnode_id=0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunc...ng_for_English
look at this site it says a like in father.