sound aow

[svetlana14]

Please expain to me how to produce the sound aow as used in various dialects (scottish, cockney). As ow should be pronounced as [au] like in cow, can I say that aow would a+au or something is wrong. Thank you.

 

[emsr2d2]

Can you give us an example of a word which uses the sound you're describing?

 

[svetlana14]

I refer to a rule taken from the internet "The 'ow' sound in words like 'cow' becomes an 'aow.' This is one of the classic Scottish sounds.
Art thou going down to the town?".

I can't understand this rule. Thank you.

 

[svetlana14]

Did you have a chance to look into my questions? Thank you very much.

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm not an expert on pronunciation but for most English people, the "ow" in "town", when said in a stereotypical Scottish accent, sounds like "oo".

"This is my town" sounds like "This is my toon".

I've been racking my brain trying to come up with a similar sound in a classic Cockney accent (the other accent mentioned in post #1) but I can't.

 

[GoesStation]

Isn't a drawn-out exclamation sounding vaguely like a-ow part of the burlesque version of Cockney English?

 

[svetlana14]

Is it what you're are talking about?

 

[svetlana14]

Can I admit that "a-ow part" resembles (more or less) the ow sound which in turn is oo sound for most of English people. Thank you.

 

[Tdol]

Isn't classic Cockney likely to say tarn for town?

 

[svetlana14]

I am still confused about the following rule in the context of the Scottish pronunciation. One site says that ow becomes aow. (for instance, in a cow). The other rule (taken from a Scottish pronunciation book) does that "[au] (which is the transcribed sound of cow) moves toward ". How do those rules or explanation correspond to each other? Meanwhile (might be I am mistaken) but I hear the diphthong ou(o+u) on the record relating by the author to the second rule. Can somebody clarify this? What is the exact transcription of aow. Thank very much.