"Lloyd W. Hanson" wrote:
> PS. With all of my imagination and manipulation and years of > experience, I am completely unable to make any form of the UH vowel > sound forward or upper such that it will sound like the AH vowel in > "File" without greatly distorting my vocal tract and creating strong > amounts of tension.
Out of interest, do you make any distinction between "love" and "laugh" (I'm talking about singing now, Lloyd :o) or is that just in UK pronunciation. (apart from the final consonant of course)
PS while typing this I'm listening to a CD of Purcell's Come Ye Sons Of Art, and am grinning at the memory of my oh-so-prim niece being in trouble (it was called a "demerit") for the first and only time in her school choir when they sang this, because on the phrase "grant, oh grant", she and a friend were making piggy noises because they thought it came out exactly like "grunt, oh grunt". I guess this only works in southern English pronunciation.
cheers
Linda
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