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- pronunciation - How is æ supposed to be pronounced? - English . . .
In Old English, ae and æ were used to represent the monophthong æ (which could be short or long) In this context, the symbol æ came to be considered a letter of its own, with the name "ash" (in Old English, "æsc") Rarely, you will see this symbol in a modern English text when somebody is using an Old English name like "Æthelred"
- When is the old english letter Æ æ modernised to A, E and AE?
The letter Æ æ in Old English represented a monophthongal vowel that could be either of two lengths: short (transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as æ ) or long (transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as æː , often written in dictionaries and modern editions of Old English texts as ǣ to distinguish it from the
- phonetics - What is the difference between a and æ ? - English . . .
0 The vowels [a] and [æ] are close to each other Some phoneticians consider that the vowel of add or shack in modern British English has changed from [æ] to [a], and so some (not all) British dictionaries now represent it by a See Lexico The vowel has not changed in American English, so æ is the vowel in add or shack in American English
- When do I use æ? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
It is an ancient grapheme sometimes used in literary historical contexts I don’t think you will need to use it in current common language Æ (minuscule: æ) is a grapheme named æsc or ash,*** formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae In English æ is often eschewed in favour of the digraph ae Usage experts often consider that incorrect
- How is Æ pronounced at the beginning of a word? Or is that simply a . . .
the Old English character ‹æ›, generally believed to have been pronounced like the IPA character with the same form The use of Æ in Ænima is consistent with this inconsistency: according to Wikipedia it's a typographic pun confounding anima and enema
- pronunciation - Difference between æ and ɛ - English Language . . .
The exact distribution of this raised allophone of æ varies between speakers, but it's generally conditioned by the identity of the following consonant It's common to hear it before nasal consonants So in the particular case of ten and tan, the latter word might very well have a closer vowel than the first for many American English speakers
- pronunciation - Does æ differ or not (American English)? - English . . .
There is a Cambridge American English Dictionary web-site I was checking pronunciation on some words that have a common sound "æ" Although the sound supposed to be the same, its pronunciation dif
- How can I practice differentiating between the æ and ɛ sounds in . . .
The correct sound of æ can generally be obtained by remembering that æ must have a sound intermediate in quality between ɛ and a In practising the sound, the mouth should be kept very wide open
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