broad vowel

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• broad — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English brood, from Old English brād; akin to Old High German breit broad Date: before 12th century 1. a. having ample extent from side to side or between limits < broad shoulders > b. having a specified extension… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• vowel — Synonyms and related words: accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico alveolar, apico dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• broad — Synonyms and related words: Jane, Jezebel, abstract, accented, aleatoric, aleatory, alveolar, amorphous, ample, amplitudinous, apical, apico alveolar, apico dental, approximate, articulated, artless, assimilated, babe, baby, back, bad woman,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Northern cities vowel shift — Three isoglosses identifying the NCVS. In the brown areas /ʌ/ is more retracted than /ɑ/. The blue line encloses areas in which /ɛ/ is backed. The red line encloses area …   Wikipedia

• Great Vowel Shift — The Great Vowel Shift was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] The Great Vowel Shift was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), a Danish linguist and Anglicist, who …   Wikipedia

• Close front unrounded vowel — i Image …   Wikipedia

• schoolmarm — (n.) also school marm, female school teacher, 1834, American English colloquial, in countrified humor writing of Major Jack Downing of Maine (Seba Smith); variant of school ma am (1828), Amer.Eng., from SCHOOL (Cf. school) (n.1) + MA AM (Cf. ma… …   Etymology dictionary

• List of digraphs in Latin alphabets — This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. (See also List of Cyrillic digraphs.) Capitalization involves only the first letter (ch – Ch) unless otherwise stated (ij – IJ). Letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetic order… …   Wikipedia

• Irish phonology — The phonology of the Irish language varies from dialect to dialect; there is no standard pronunciation of the language. Therefore, this article focuses on phenomena that pertain generally to most or all dialects, and on the major differences… …   Wikipedia

• Phonological history of English short A — Trap bath split= The trap bath split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in southern varieties of English English (including Received Pronunciation), in the Boston accent, and in the Southern Hemisphere accents (Australian English, New Zealand… …   Wikipedia

• Australian English — (AusE, AuE, AusEng, en AU[1]) is the name given to the group of dialects spoken in Australia that form a major variety of the English language. English is the primary language spoken throughout Australia …   Wikipedia