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bad-lad split

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Definitions

  1. a phonemic split of the phoneme /æ/ into a short /æ/ and a long /æː/, as heard in some…

    a phonemic split of the phoneme /æ/ into a short /æ/ and a long /æː/, as heard in some varieties of British and Australian English, in which "bad" is pronounced /bæːd/ and "lad" is pronounced /læd/

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bad-lad split. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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