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   From: "alexander koryagin"    
      
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   Hi, Ardith Hinton! How are you?   
   on Tuesday, 03 of June, I read your message to Dallas Hinton   
   about "Hi"   
      
    PQ>> Caps? China cups.  Yes.  I used to have my own (favourite) cup and   
    PQ>> saucer in my teenaged years.   
      
    ak>> It is interesting how it sounds in Australia?   
      
    AH> Seems to me Paul was pointing out what I  used  to  call  a  "wrong   
    AH> word" error (abbreviated  "w/w")  in  marking  junior  high  school   
    AH> compositions.   
      
    AH> When you've made a typo or whatever,  you often  find  it  yourself   
    AH> upon further reflection.   
      
      This is not a reflection,  it is an opportunity to  say  a  few  more   
   English phrases.  It is not easy to find a pretext to say  something  in   
   the language you learn.   
      
    AH> What I see him doing here is basically what I'd have done in such a   
    AH> situation...  i.e.  call attention to the word you used  &  say  "I   
    AH> think you mean xxx." If either of us had corrected your spelling in   
    AH> accordance with what we thought  you  wanted  to  say  without  any   
    AH> further comment you and/or other  readers  might  be  unaware  that   
    AH> "cap" is a perfectly good English word too. :-)   
      
      I think everybody  knows  that  there  are  cups  and  caps.  I  just   
   remembered that Aussies often pronounce "a" in a different way than  the   
   people in the UK do.  IMHO,  it can  be  heard  when  they  say  "fAce",   
   "explAin",  "SpAin" etc.  If we put such an "A" in "cap" it would  sound   
   similar to "cup".  But it was my fantasy.  I read some materials on  the   
   Australian pronunciation and found out that "cap"  in  Australia  sounds   
   exactly as "cap" in the UK.   
      
    AH> Vowel sounds may differ  from  one  language  to  another,  and  in   
    AH> English they may vary from one dialect to another.  But all of  the   
    AH> Aussies I've met in person distinguish between the short "a" &  the   
    AH> short "u" just as I would. ;-)   
      
      Yes, short "a"s, like in cap/cup. But when they say "cAse", "bAse" --   
   "A" sounds differently  IMHO.  Although,  in  Australia,  there  can  be   
   different dialects.   
      
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   Bye Ardith!   
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