Date:    Sun, 3 May 1998 21:27:40 +0200
<br>From:    David Sutcliffe <david.sutcliffe[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TRAD.UPF.ES>
<br>Subject: Re. RP
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<br>I'm a north Londoner, little on the downmarket side of RP, I'm afraid.
<br>But I think I can answer the question. A clear difference is usually
<br>made in RP (varieties of...) between close /e/ as the first element of
<br>the /eI/ dipththong as in day and the open /e/ as in pet. In the 40's
<br>and 50's, probably beginning earlier, the ash vowel was raised in RP,
<br>(as in "the gel's (girl's) epsolutely smeshing") and this could I
<br>suppose have driven the pet vowel higher - but surely not as high as
<br>close /e/. At all events my generation (born early forties onward)
<br>reversed this trend and brought the ash vowel down to nearly fully open,
<br>leaving plenty of room for the other two vowels.
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<br>David Sutcliffe
<br>Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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