Interesting.
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There is also a greater range of vowel sounds - the English "o" sound in "botanist" is a short sound, pronounced with the mouth in an O-shape. This sound is missing from many American dialects, where it's rendered as an "ah" or "oh". Thus "botanist" becomes "baht-anist"
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What do these "ah" and "oh" sound like? Same as in "uh-oh"? That is, they're less open? Does the "hot-rock" AE/BE example
example (here) illustrates what you mean?
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