Steg Belsky wrote:
> You actually pronounce "width" /wIdD/?
> I've always as far as i remember pronounced it /wIT/, as a homophone
> with "with".
I'm one of the width = /wItT/, with = /wID/ crowd.
Sometimes people say /wIdT/.
> Actually, in elementary school i got in trouble with my teacher during a
> homophone/homonym project for pointing out that "our" can be homophonous
> with both "hour" and "are", depending on whether you're pronouncing it
> [&wr=] or [ar]. I generally use the [ar] version, myself.
I have the careful articulation of "our" down as [{7@] in x-sampa and
"hour" as [{Uw@] (the former is triphthongal while the latter is
bisyllabic).
Note that in the above [{] is actually [{_o] in all cases. The /{/ in
the /{U/ diphthong is noticably lower than the /{/ in /h{t/.
Adrian.