Comments on: Long and Short A’s http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2006/09/16/long-and-short-as/ Thoughts and photos from an American living in Spain. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:14:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: erik http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2006/09/16/long-and-short-as/#comment-106 erik Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:16:15 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2006/09/16/long-and-short-as/#comment-106 Hey, Alan. It's probably late now, but we could change the pronunciation if you ("the A") wanted to wear a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_vector" rel="nofollow">hat</a>. MÂGE It looks good on you! :-) P.S. I'd wear a feather (MÂGÉ), but then we'd look French. Hey, Alan. It’s probably late now, but we could change the pronunciation if you (”the A”) wanted to wear a hat.

MÂGE

It looks good on you! :-)

P.S. I’d wear a feather (MÂGÉ), but then we’d look French.

]]> By: alan http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2006/09/16/long-and-short-as/#comment-105 alan Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:59:07 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2006/09/16/long-and-short-as/#comment-105 Yes, I'm glad that you finished with the qualification, because I was about to say, "Hey, that still doesn't quite work". The whatchamathingie "a" is hard to replicate with the GE that follows. Anyway, I hope someone comes up with something. You also should mention our theory that it's mispronounced a lot because it looks so much like "image". Alan (the A in Mage) Yes, I’m glad that you finished with the qualification, because I was about to say, “Hey, that still doesn’t quite work”. The whatchamathingie “a” is hard to replicate with the GE that follows. Anyway, I hope someone comes up with something.

You also should mention our theory that it’s mispronounced a lot because it looks so much like “image”.

Alan (the A in Mage)

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