To me American pronunciations of "cot" generally sound either a ... of an American accent has something close to my "cat". I have a typical American accent. When you listen to my pronunciation of "caught" which is the

The only pronunciation I've ever heard for Bodega Bay, California, is "bo DAY ga", though sometimes the first vowel drops out completely. This is also how Paul Simon sings it in "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes", which

No; Boo-deeger, like bodega, only not. No, not at all: bodega is surely bod-ayger. The only pronunciation I've ever heard for Bodega Bay, California, is "bo DAY ga", though sometimes the first vowel drops out completely. Michael West

I started a new thread, because my question is not quite the same as what is under discussion in the ... a sound that, to us non-Americans, seems closer to 'a', so I started thinking about the letters 'a, o, u'. It's been

(snip) I see it as a pronunciation spelling for those who pronounce the word as (drO:) and that includes rhotic AmE speakers in my experience (it may be a Midland phenomenon). MWCD11 includes (drO) as a dialectal pronunciation of

I have no luck in vowel discussions. All I can ... put in such a word. I'd call theirs a diphthong, Chances are yours is also a diphthong, though it may be a different diphthong from that which most BrE speakers ... seems to me to be

A spelling tip: words like table and noble have what the Americans call a long vowel (tay, noh). Isn't it diphtongs? Spelling tip number two... Diphthongs has more Hs than you'd expect. Maybe you could visualize some "different

A spelling tip: words like table and noble have what the Americans call a long vowel (tay, noh). Isn't it diphtongs? /ei/ and /eu/. The second /e/ bottom up, /i/ without the dot and the /u/ like an omega bottom up - it is difficult to write

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