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CalifJim wrote:Rhyming friend to stand sounds peculiar to me, and somewhat Texan, perhaps. It's definitely not standard. Thanks.Well, I'm not an expert on accents... but did you listen to the audio clip? Would you say pronouncing "again" that way sounds southern? I think I've heard that...

Kooyeen, I thought I remembered that when you took the American dialect test, you came out as a Westerner. You also said that you are normally cot . I've noticed that overall, it is a feature in my accent that almost no one comments on.

I'm not quite sure I understand your symbols. For one thing, North American English doesn't really distinguish vowel length, vowel phonemes are realized as long vowel allophones before voiced consonant phonemes in the coda of a syllable. Secondly, is the open front unrounded vowel

In my opinion, foreign students are taught the pronunciation of words according to the their first entry in the Pronunciation Dictionary (John Wells' Pronunciation Dictionary or Daniel Johns' English Pronouncing Dictionary - these two hold a good reputation in the field). I believe that the first...