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Coloraday Posted 17 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

British accent

In a lot of British accent films I have heard actors say "say" like this sæ? instead of se? .How is it?
  

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A lot of people in the UK seem to speak like that. /. /.

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A lot of people in the UK seem to speak like that.
Americans usually say something like /se?/, while Brits tend to say it more like /s??/. Of course there are lots of regional variations, so some lower the vowel even more and say /sæ?/ or even /sa?/.
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What is this ??How is it pronounced?My Longman dictionary doesn't have it.I have seen it in French dictionary of oxford.  
Thanks
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When it comes to "says", in AmE you usually here [s?z]. You also hear [s?z].

Difference between ? and e: vowel height.

BET, PEN got ?
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There seems to be an issue of convention bewteen various dictionaries. For more, look at

http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2009/03/e-and.html
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