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What regional dialect of English are you using that the word "pa" is pronounced any differently? To my West Coast / NorCal ears, urying to use a stressed, secon
by OkayPhysicist 4y ago
What regional dialect of English are you using that the word "pa" is pronounced any differently? To my West Coast / NorCal ears, urying to use a stressed, second-a-in-"banana" pronunciation, is really weird, as is schwaing it to the point of "uh". The unstressed-short a (the other two 'a's in 'banana') sounds the best, and is perfectly reasonable to describe phonetically as "aw".
- standardly 4y ago.. In the same way "fa la la" is not sung "faw law law"
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoI would write that as either "faw lah lah" or "fuh lah lah" or maybe "fuh luh luh". The "paw" sound is undeniably how I'd refer to my father, not "puh", or "pah", though I could imagine like a New England accent using the latter.