A while back I published an article and also a video where I focused upon pronunciation of the so-called “ash” sound (æ) in American English.
You see, back then I’d just realized that the letter ‘A’ can be pronounced differently in certain words despite the phonetic description not revealing anything different about it.
Let’s take, for example, the following two words:
Drank /dræŋk/
Flat /flæt/
On both occasions, the “ash” sound (æ) represents the letter ‘A’, and previously I would have th...
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