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I do like that the way Americans say "autistic" is very like the way we say "artistic". This American loves it, too. How do people here pronounce <Colorado> and <Nevada>? I have /kɑləˈɹædoʊ ~ kɑlɚˈædoʊ ~ kɑlˈɹædoʊ/ and /nəˈvædə/. It sounds wrong to me when people have /ɑ/ in the stressed syllables.

I (think I) have heard it pronounced both Edinburg and Edinburo.

I don't see how it matters much though, unless I'm actually talking to a Scottish person. It isn't a common topic like say, London, Paris, or Amsterdam.

I think all of mine are /ɑɹ/, but approaching [ʌɹ].

I know my friends wouldn't recognize pollywog, except maybe that it's somehow related to frogs thanks to Gullah Gullah Island. I'll try to describe my English a bit. /i/ /u/ /ɪ/ /ʊ/ /ɛ/ /ə/ /æ/ /ɑ/ /ei/ /ou/ /ai/ /ɔi/ /æu/ /ɚ/ /ɔ˞/ /ɑ˞ /ɛɚ/ /iɚ/ and /ẽə/ /ɪ̃/ /ɑ̃/ /ʌ̃/ might be possible to classify ...

Nebraska. When I was first getting into linguistics I wanted to know what the sound in ewe was, because I didn't recognize it. Everything I'd read said it was [ju], but I was pretty sure it wasn't a homophone to you. So I checked with my brother and a couple of friends. I had them first pronounce e...

Thanks! I always found rounded and palatalized consonants interesting and I was hoping to derive them in a somewhat believable way but at the same time make it hard for them to be analyzed as simple sequences. Can anyone tell me if this is at least a little realistic? I messed up one of the spelling...

Gwóntu /ŋʷʊ̃tu/ /m mʲ mʷ n ɲ ŋ ŋʷ/ /p pʲ pʷ t tʷ c k kʷ ʔ/ /t͡s t͡sʷ t͡ɕ/ /ɸ ɸʲ ɸʷ s sʷ ɕ x xʷ/ /w ( r ) j l ʎ ʟ ʟʷ/ /i e æ ɜ ɑ o u/ The following vowels are present in most accents, but conservatives tend to keep their historic forms. Each group will typically either be wholly present or wholly abs...

Why do people keep transcribing English words that definitely have long vowels without /:/ or [:]? :( Are you referring to me? I followed Jetboy's transcription and hoped it's right. I'm not particularly good at transcribing sounds, especially not phones. Both of you, I guess, but I've seen it befo...

<enchilada> /ænt͡ʃɪlɑɾə/ > [ɛ̃(n)t͡ʃɨlɑɾə] <crayon> /kræn/ > [krɛ̃n] <sandwich> /sænwɪt͡ʃ/ > [sɛ̃wɪt͡ʃ] <-ound> /aʊnd/ > [æ(ʊ)n(d)] <-owl, -oul> /aʊl/ > [æ(ʊ)l] <horror> /horər/ > [hɔɹː] I really question historic /æ/ before /m, n/ still belonging to that same phoneme, and I doubt that /aʊ/ will rem...

I am a rhotic speaker from Nebraska just to clear things up, which (hopefully) explains my ignorance here. I know that non-rhotic accents don't all have the same phoneme spread, but I am trying to understand these phonemes in some of the more common accents that have them. IMD we have two words that...

Would <tuatara, fuel> have /ʊə/ and <real> have /ɪə/? I've also read that some dialects merge <power, pyre> into /pɑə/. If this is true, does the new phoneme(?) expand to words like <lion, iodine>? Is it more common for British speakers to have words like lava and pasta with broad or flat a? I know ...

<s'mores>, <ewe>?
/∫morz~smorz/, /iu/

Every person from my area I've checked with would say "an ewe" rather than "a ewe", but "a union" rather than "an union", so they aren't just illiterate or something.

So I've been looking around, but I can't seem to find a list of words with the phonemes /ɪə, ɛə, ʊə, ɜː/ that did not result from historic sequences of /ir, er, ur, ɜr/ (ex. id ea , y eah . Is there anyone who can come up with a good list of words that fit this description? While we're at it, is Eng...

I wonder if you can work out what a fivehead is, if you don't know already. Hint: it's along the same lines as fork. I get what it's supposed to be a pun on but have no idea what it's supposed to be. :P A very large forehead is a fivehead. Usually not due to a receding hairline, at least in my usage.

Nebraska. When I was first getting into linguistics I wanted to know what the sound in ewe was, because I didn't recognize it. Everything I'd read said it was [ju], but I was pretty sure it wasn't a homophone to you. So I checked with my brother and a couple of friends. I had them first pronounce ew...

Is it innovative that I pronounce usually as [juZli] with the syllable break varying between [u.Z] and [Z.l]?

Ewe/yew/you sounds like it would be a good way to test if any dialects have a true contrast between /ju/ and /iu/. Does any such dialect exist? That is a very good question that I would be interesting in seeing the answer to myself. What about the expression of disgust "ew"? I've certainly heard [i...

I use whole nother often myself.
I also have eachother as one word with a syllable split of /i.tSV.D@r/.
I don't know how common these uses are, but among my friends we say 'domed' for hit on the head, and 'heated' for pissed off.

I'm fairly sure that the majority of the people with my dialect have merged [V,U] with [O] before [l]. So pull/poll and gull/goal sound exactly the same.