A good example of this is the way some New Yorkers pronounce a raised /æ/ vowel in words like bat or bag. To a New Yorker, this raised /æ/ still just sounds like bat or bag. To a Southerner or ...

Any vowel letter can be pronounced ... Listen to these two words: In the word 'man' the letter 'a' has its full sound - represented by the symbol /æ/. In 'postman' the syllable 'man' is not ...