Thanks so much to anyone who feels able to support my channel 🙏🙏🙏 Patrons get access to my videos ad free! -- A investigation into a interesting development! Join my Discord: 0:00 Intro and articles 0:49 Hiatus 2:39 Hard Attack 6:03 Weak Form Strengthening 6:55 'A' before a vowel in London, S Africa and AAVE 9:43 'A' before a vowel in General American 13:36 'A' before a vowel in British English 14:41 What can possibly go wrong? Chat with other speech/language fans on my Discord: The clip of South African English is from Paul Meier’s International Dialects of English Archive, IDEA and is used with his permission. Paul is a dialect coach and author of Accents and Dialects for Stage and Screen, which includes instruction on the Afrikaans accent from that work: Anne Hathaway by VOGUE Taiwan, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license :