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Dear all, I'd second what Catherine and Michael have said. In my own accent of British English, which is a bit of a mixture of southern English and northern English influences, I definitely use a stressed article with schwa before a consonant, but with [i] more likely before a vowel. I'd also use [@] for 'a' in stressed position, as Catherine notes. The general [@] usage in 'the' I would only expect to hear from an American, and I think I do associate it more with the West Coast. Mark Mark Jones Department of Linguistics University of Cambridge _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger