Thanks for your feedback. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I speak like national personalities such as Tom Browkaw, Katie Couric, Jane Pauley and Diane Sawyer. This might come as a surprise to you, but all these people don't

I have no regional accent that I'm aware of - ... believe it's a regional thing that's causing me this dispute. It's not quite as simple as that. There isn't one, uniform general American accent. There's plenty of room for

I have no regional accent that I'm aware of - I talk just like they do on television and in ... vowel sound within the words in question, so I can't believe it's a regional thing that's causing me this dispute. It's not quite

Well, of course, pure IPA is far too powerful for a dictionary,except to distinguish dialect. A decent phonemic notation would suffice. For instance, there's an extra low back phoneme in RP that I never know when to pronounce, since it

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And, in some dialects (including a dwindling subset of the ... follow the vowel that whole "can't"/"pass"/"bath" sort of class. I'm tentatively describing that as "tense a" rather than

I suppose you merge "cot" and "caught". Yes. Is the pronunciation that is different from mine, similar to the vowel in British RP "bald" (where "bald" and "bold" rhyme), and which one?