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Venting about "father"
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cntrational Triglot Groupie India Joined 5127 days ago 49 posts - 66 votes Speaks: Hindi, Telugu, English* Studies: French	Message 33 of 34 13 April 2011 at 7:04pm \| IP Logged
	One problem is that many English dialects (including American English) have merged /ɑ/ into /ɔ/ (or vice versa) (/ɑ/ being the sound we're talking about). There isn't any good way to represent the vowel for those dialects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot-caught_merger#Cot.E2.80.93c aught_merger 1 person has voted this message useful
alys.d'orival Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 5319 days ago 14 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English*, German^C2, French Studies: Latin, Nepali	Message 34 of 34 14 April 2011 at 3:18am \| IP Logged
	Being from Australia (and having an English parent) I don't pronounce 'father' and 'bother' remotely the same. My 'a' in father is a longer ahh, no 'aww' sound and 'bother' is a short 'o' sound, no 'a' influence in sight, like 'fodder'. But I'm sure many people pronounce fodder differently too! I was surprised though that someone wrote they were completely unaware the words could be pronounced differently! 1 person has voted this message useful

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