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From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman)
Subject: Re: t in AE bottle was Re: Q: [French] Is "vie" [vi@]?
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:44:10 GMT
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I, too, _think_ that I pronounce "madder" & "matter" differently, but
when I try the experiment the difference is slight & may be an
artifact.

About 30 years ago I happened to see a child's school paper in which
he or she had misspelled "puddle" as "puttle".  In that person's
speech, at any rate, there must have been no distinction.
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