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Originally Posted by CJ 4 life  No, maybe you didn't get it. I meant to ask if the first part of the diphthong "OU" (like in "smoke") can be pronounce STILL as a diphthong, but with the first part (the "O" part) as a opened "O", instead of using the closed one; cause I heard pronounciations like this all the time. |
Perhaps it would help if you gave examples of such words, where you heard them and whether the speaker was using a regional accent.