Re: Deseret alphabet

Quoting Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>:

> Raen-Fransua Colsunu Æ¿raet:
> > How is pronounced the letter short o (o as in woman)? Following my
> > dictionaries "woman" is pronounced <"wUm@n> (its "o" is pronounced like
> > the "oo" of "book"), but I guess the short o and the short oo are
> > used for different vowels. How is "woman" pronounced in the States?
>
> M-W.com lists \wum&n\, \wOm&n\ and \w&m&n\. Presumably \w&m&n\, i.e.
> {/w@m@n/ /wVm@n/ /wVmVn/}, is intended.
/wUm@n/ is by far the most common form;  there are handful of
pockets here and there in the South (mostly toward the east coast)
that use /O/ or /@/ there.

> (In at least one common
> analysis---or even pronunciation---of Std Americian, the vowels of About
> and cUt are just allophones.)
In General American, yes. (There is no standard, de facto or otherwise.)
Also in most Western varieties.

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