Re: representing back unrounded vowels in X-Sampa

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> At 20:18 17.1.2004, Joe wrote:
>
> >  In my ideolect, it's definitely
> >not [6], which sounds far too [a]-ish.  I think it's definitely either
> >[3] or [V], probably the latter.
>
> Most RP speakers' /V/ sounds very [a]-ish
> to me.  Much more so than Americans'/V/s,
> or Korean /V/, which latter definitely is
> different from both the RP and the US sounds.
On this subject, there are some British/Irish English accents which sound
to me like they have [O] or [Q] or something for an <o> that represents a
short u especially in open syllables (e.g. oven, worry). Are there
dialects that actually do that, or are my ears deceiving me?

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Tristan