Bogdan  +  194228 Wed, 08 Feb 06 05:40 PM Could someone, possibly a native speaker, help me with pronunciation of certain words? How do you pronounce words like watch, long and body, for example? I always thought it sound like long, bodi and wotch (hope you understand since I'm not using phonetic symbols) until I took a look in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English by A.S. Hornby where I found it sound more like lan, badi and watch (a sound between a and o) so I'm little bit confused Bogdan Joined on Fri, Feb 3 2006 Serbia, Belgrade New Member 05 Pronunciation, Phonetics

	nona the brit  +  194296 Wed, 08 Feb 06 08:09 PM Well I'm a native Brit and your first suggestions sound perfect to me. nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,743 The name says it all.

	Bogdan  +  194316 Wed, 08 Feb 06 09:09 PM The same phonetic symbol is used to describe pronunciations of words like arm, art, arch etc. I'm not sure what to think Bogdan Phonetics

	nona the brit  +  194379 Wed, 08 Feb 06 11:28 PM Is it giving you the US pronounciation? That would sound more like the a sound? nona the brit

	Marvin A.  +  309884 Wed, 03 Jan 07 04:54 AM For me, both the open-mid back rounded vowel and the open back unrounded vowel are allophones of the same vowel. Marvin A. Joined on Fri, Dec 8 2006 Regular Member 638 Vowels, Allophones