John Cowan wrote:
> Matthew Pearson wrote:
>
> > And that's different from the sound you have in "book" (which is in turn different
> > from the sound you have in "put")?
>
> Yes. "Put" has a rounded vowel, which I think is entrained by the /p/,
> which explodes using perceptible rounding. "Book" has no such rounding.
> "Could" uses a high central lax vowel rather than a high front lax vowel;
> phonemically it is probably /c@d/, though the vowel is not [@] as such.
Incredible. I hear no such differences in my own speech...
Matt.