abbey aft after aghast ant ask askance ass back badge banana banner bask basket Basque bastard batch bath blasphemy blast branch brass cab calf can't cancel cant cask casket cast castle cat chaff chance circumstantial clasp class Cleopatra contrast corral craft daft dance dash demand disaster disastrous drastic draught elastic exasperate expand fancy fast fasten finance flask gas gasp ghastly Glasgow glass graft grant graph grasp grass gymnastic half halve ham hand have Iraq jazz lapse last laugh laughter lax mad man mask masque mass mast master masturbate math(s) morale nasty panda pass passage past pastoral path plaster plastic raft rafter rag random rant rascal raspberry rather romance sample shaft Shaftesbury shan't slander Slav staff stance substantial Sudan tap task tassel thank transfer transform transit transport vastThe chances are that you have the same vowel - usually TRAP
In the South of England, and in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, some
of these words have a"broader" pronunciation - we call them BATH words, and
instead of
they have
.
SO FANCY DANCES is pronounced
in RP but
in GenAm.
IF YOU WANT AN RP or other Southern English accent, you'll have to
check all these words : which are TRAP words () and which are BATH (=PALM,
) ? - Here are
the answers.
If you have any questions mail me at peturk@hi.is.