Phonological history of English low back vowels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSome lazy Americans will pronounce ɒ where ɔ: ought to be pronounced, so it would be beneficial to listen to the British when trying to decipher these sounds.
Phonological history of English low back vowels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Some lazy Americans" seem to make up 40% of the whole number of speakers.
Mr. LABOV: Half of this country has a merger of the word classes, cot, caught, don, dawn, hock, hawk.
It seems strange to me for you to say that what appears to be an acceptable American pronunciation is 'lazy'. That's the sort of comment I used to hear from the masters at my oh-so-British would-be public school fifty years ago.Some lazy Americans will pronounce ɒ where ɔ: ought to be pronounced, so it would be beneficial to listen to the British when trying to decipher these sounds.