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  1. æ-tensingnoun

    a process that occurs in some accents of North American English in which the phoneme /æ/ is raised and lengthened or diphthongized in various environments.

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  1. æ-tensing

    In the sociolinguistics of the English language, /æ/ raising or short-a raising is a phenomenon by which the "short a" vowel (listen), the TRAP/BATH vowel (found in such words as ash, bath, man, lamp, pal, rag, sack, trap, etc.), is pronounced with a raising of the tongue. In most American and many Canadian English accents, /æ/ raising is specifically /æ/ tensing: a combination of greater raising, fronting, lengthening, and gliding that occurs only in certain words or environments. The most common context for tensing /æ/ throughout North American English, regardless of dialect, is when this vowel appears before a nasal consonant (thus, for example, commonly in fan, but rarely in fat).The realization of this "tense" (as opposed to "lax") /æ/ varies from [æ̝ˑ] to [ɛə] to [eə] to [ɪə], and can be dependent on the particular dialect or even speaker. One common realization is [ɛə], a transcription that will be used throughout this article to represent the tensed pronunciation. Variable raising of /æ/ (and /æɔ/, the MOUTH vowel transcribed with ⟨aʊ⟩ in General American) before nasal consonants also occurs in Australian English.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of æ-tensing in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of æ-tensing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of æ-tensing in a Sentence

  1. Stew Mathews:

    Turns the car on, jams it (into) drive and mashes the accelerator. He wasn't slowly pulling away. (Tensing) feared for his life. He thought he was going to be sucked under the car that was pulling away from him. He thought he was going to get sucked under and killed.

  2. Stew Mathews:

    The guy jams the keys in the ignition, turns the car on, jams it (into) drive and mashes the accelerator. He wasn't slowly pulling away. (Tensing) feared for his life. He thought he was going to be sucked under the car that was pulling away from him. He thought he was going to get sucked under and killed.

  3. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters:

    When Phillip Kidd were specifically asked about what Phillip Kidd saw and heard, Phillip Kidd statements matched Tensing's body camera video.


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