Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 07:59:24 -0700

From: Bruce Gelder bgelder[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CAMEL.SIM.ES.COM

Subject: Re: can/can't



I pronounce "can"

as /kaen/ - (the vowel is an "ash") and "can't" as /ke:nt/.



For whatever it's worth (not much, I imagine, but I thought I'd pass it

along anyway), yesterday my five-year-old daughter, who's gotten pretty

good at correlating sounds to letters, wrote the word "can," sounding

it out for herself, as "kean."



We live near Salt Lake City.



Bruce Gelder