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Belly Posted 18 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

/ae/ in BrE and AmE

0Why are those words all represented in /ae/ but are pronounced differently in AmE and BrE?02br
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00Ex: Black, back, pack, attack, Sudan etc.02br
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00I heard them being pronounced differently, a bare /e/ for AmE and a bare /a/ for BrE... I've already checked out Meriam Webster but they do not show the words' varieties0-
  

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1blockquote 01cite 10Belly12cite 10I heard them being pronounced differently, a bare /e/ for AmE12blockquote 10Hi,02br 00it's not /e/ in American English. It's around /æ/. 02br 00Dictionaries only give you a transcription so that you know what kind of syllable you have to use when pronouncing a word, but they never tell you the exact sounds for every dialect.

— Kooyeen

  • 1blockquote 01cite 10Belly12cite 10I heard them being pronounced differently, a bare /e/ for AmE12blockquote 10Hi,02br 00it's not /e/ in American English.
  • It's around /æ/.
  • 02br 00Dictionaries only give you a transcription so that you know what kind of syllable you have to use when pronouncing a word, but they never tell you the exact sounds for every dialect.
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01cite10Belly12cite10I heard them being pronounced differently, a bare /e/ for AmE12blockquote
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00it's not /e/ in American English. It's around /æ/. Then there are diffrences, because for example, a lot of poeple change it before N, M, or NG, so "pan" is usually either /peən/ or /pɛən/.02br
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