What type of accent do you have?

binx
Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:56:06 +0000

I say egg with a longish A sound. The short e sounds “country” to my ears. I grew up surrounded by immigrants, but my H says it the same way, and he didn’t. (I’d love to hear a tape of how we sounded when we first met - how has our speech changed? I know I didn’t used to think we sounded alike, but now I think we do.)

I know a lot of foreign languages pronounce e as a long A. Like Spanish. Italian. And German, and some other European languages I think. So your conjecture might be accurate.

Luh works for how I say it ‘la’. But the ‘father’ and ‘sod’ examples would have the same vowel sound as “law” to me, so I’m not getting how you say it yet.

Jym - where was your roommie from? Alabama? or Boston? (I get those two mixed up. )