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I’m a native British speaker. I would tend to transcribe the same vowel in ‘train’ and ‘danger’ – !

I would like to add that the above post was really intended to go in the main thread about the British Library Archive of English Accents and Dialects. Phonetics is very scientific and objective in its description of sounds. All sounds are mapped to an international system of symbols, and are...