Definitions | bad-lad split |
| noun (wikipedia, Phonological history of English short A)
- (linguistics) a phonemic split of the phoneme /í¦/ into a short /í¦/ and a long /í¦Ë�/, as heard in some varieties of British and Australian English, in which "bad" is pronounced /bí¦Ë�d/ and "lad" is pronounced /lí¦d/
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