ah/ awe

[Tom Zurinskas]

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> > Green PEAS??
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>Sorry, I should have said, "the opinion that normal people from Connecticut
>have a monophthongal vowel in the word 'right' has the scientific status of
>a
>theory that the moon is made of green CHIVES."
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I'd say the folks in CN say long i as in "right" just as the lady in m-w.com
does.
But then thats all we're talking about hear.  Does she say it as a diphthong
or two phthongs.

We should get a sprectrographs on this.  Grab the words from m-w.com of
"sight" "sot" and "seat".  Then see if the graph of those vowel sounds are
in the word "right."  I would venture they are not there.

Tom  Z

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