As far as phonemes go it would be /æ/. I'm still in that liminal space that phone/me thing right and sometimes not.Ngohe wrote:The Cockney [ɛ] is still the same phoneme as /æ/ in other English dialects, right? Just that its phonetic realisation is less open.
I've got a feeling (though my tongue's still not very experienced) that my Cockney [ɛ] (thAnks) is slightly more closed than my native Estuary [ɛ] (gEt).