In Received Pronunciation, "bother" is (bA.D@), "father" is (fA:D@). That is, they're the same vowel except that the one in "bother" is rounded, while the one in "father" is not. And the one in

My coworkers have asked me to stop muttering "Charles" over and over. I'd best not start calling it out loud. It's hard to pronounce in one syllable for a rhotic speaker, I think, without winding up sounding like Tom Brokaw.

The only source I have for the pronunciation of "Czolgosz" ... interpret the ad-hoc phonetic spelling "cholgosh" - /tSolgAS/, I suppose. If the "cot" vowel was intended in the first syllable, then I don't see any

Yesterday I came upon a phonetic spelling in which "o" represented /A/ I think that's the vowel it's intended to represent, ... America,* Ramsey used a phonetic spelling to represent the pronunciation of the name of President

If two pronunciations have vowels from different phonemes, then the broad-phonetic transcriptions of those two pronunciations should use symbols corresponding to the appropriate phonemes. From this paragraph it sounds like what you're

In that Chambers list, I approximately have two allophones for that 'ee' or /i/ vowel. One comprises the vowel heard in lean/dene/chief/seize; the other comprises the vowel heard in keel/gear/hear/sheer/query. "Gear"? Say, for my

The Chambers Dictionary (1993 edition) has a pronunciation symbol that they say corresponds to the vowels in "lean, keel, ... query". Is there anyone in the English speaking world who pronounces "here" and "lean" with

How should the "Bob" in "Bob Cunningham" be pronounced? CINC Americans will want to say "bahb", using the cot/father vowel, but Bob's own pronunciation of "Bob" seems closer to their "Bawb".

The "cahfee" pronunciation is common in the white ethnic southern and western extremities and inner suburbs. What Areff is tryin' ta do wit dat "Badder" and "care pairk" jazz is beyond me. What Richard is trying

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?