Re: The [a] sound...
Rob Zook 
Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:26:01 -0600

At 04:54 PM 3/16/98 +0100, Dr Maggie Hellstrom, Lund wrote:
>Rob wrote:
>> The [a] in Bach, occurs just a little bit higher and further back in
>> the throat, and you're right it does seem like a small difference.
>
>Maybe, but I have French colleagues who would pronounce "patte" as 
>pa-teu, with the major stress on the first syllable, and the [eu] in 
>'teu' more or less rhyming with the English word "purse". When they do 
>that, the [a] sound in "patte" comes out just like the [a] in the German 
>"Bach" (which, incidentally, is not only the family name of a line of 
>famous baroque composers, but also means "brook" in English.)

Ahh.,hmmm..,I should have said, they way I have learned to pronounce
it. I've never heard a native French speaker pronounce - no doubt
that's the differance.


>The need for ,wav-files defining the pronounciation is becoming more 
>obvious with each day...

Yea, and verily thou speaketh sooth. We're working on it.


Rob Z.
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