 Re: The diphthong in "smoke"
I'm not at all familiar with the way by which Buddaheart explains pronunciation but I do know that in the UK the long O sound is altered to OR by people from the north (Yorkshire, Lancashire) or Scotland, or even Wales:
Horm (for home), Snor (for Snow) and so on.
In some dialects, home can become almost hum, or snow snahr.
(Buddaheart, is there some established practice that describes phonetics and where could I find reference to it?)
Dave |