Re: English |a|

Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
>> "Dog" is pronounced 'dawg' in NYC also.
Not with the diphthong, certainly, which is also to be found...

> Whether we have /o/ or /O/ before /r/ is debatable. One could call it
> "lowered o" or "raised O"; in fact in the IPA I learned in the 60s, there
> was a special symbol for this intermediate vowel, but it seems to have been
> eliminated.
On
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cot-caught_merger

It was suggested that, in my case anyway, it's indeed better /o/, and
I've come to agree with that: [o] and [O] don't contrast before /r/
(except when compounds are involved, like "O-ring" vs. "boring"), and
it saves on the unusuality of a phoneme that only occurs in one position.

(For those who may have an [o]/[O] contrast before /r/, I suppose the
situation would be different...)

	*Muke!
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