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Complete Definition of "bad-lad split"

English
Noun
wikipedia|Phonological history of English short A
bad-lad split

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

See also
æ-tensing
trap-bath split

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