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In article <m3rai8guvs.fsf@gabi-soft.fr>, James Kanze 
<kanze@gabi-soft.fr> says...

>macchi@marina.scn.de (Gian Carlo Macchi) writes:

>>>Is there any dialect that uses just one phoneme for both?
 
>>I've never heard such a dialect (perhaps somebody can help): however
>>note that, at present, also dialects are influenced by Italian (often
>>horrible) spoken by radio and TV.

>My wife's from Como (on the Swiss border), and is incapable of
>pronouncing an open o (which gives her a very strange accent in French,
>not at all Italian).  I believe that this is general for "Ticinese".
>(They do use both e's however.)

James,
I imagine your wife pronounce, for example, Como with two closed o's, 
depite Tuscans usually pronounce open the first o.

However, as Lombard, I find hard to believe that she pronounce as closed 
also, for example, first o's in uomo or suono. Is that true?

Ciao.

Gian Carlo Macchi  macchi@scn.de