<BR><br><br> <blockquote><i>Quote:</i></b><hr> AY-oh-mare<br> &<br> TALL-keen<hr></blockquote><br> Looks like mum was right then. Mothers always are... (I write tol, you write tall, but I <i> think</i> we're referring to the same sound, except tall is slightly more accurate as far as length goes.)<br> <br> Really, all these english approximations are annoying, though. AY as in 'pray'? Is the 'oh' long or short (if that makes any sense)? Mare to rhyme with bear? Throw in differing accents, and english gets terribly confusing. <br> <br> (I once read a book on linguistics which confused me because it used the A in 'father' as an example of one of the sounds, and then the A in the spanish 'casa' as another, and I'd always pronounced those two As the same way. But I digress.) <p></p>
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