Talk:Open back rounded vowel

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I don't agree. Although Oxford Canadian English Dictionary says that hockey is pronounced as ['hɒki] in both Canadian English and British English, this is not entirely true. The author of the Oxford Canadian English Dictionary is an English lady living in Ottawa. And while it may be true that people from Ottawa have [ɒ] in hockey, the great majority of Canadians has an unrounded vowel here, thus: ['hɑki]. If you take a look at the ANAE sound map (http://www.mouton-online.com/anae.php) you will see that the merged cot/caught vowel is unrounded for most Canadians: [kɑt]; [kɒt] is used by some people, mainly those from Ottawa.

Yep, Portuguese

I reverted the Brazilian IP edit, for an unreferenced claim about some exotic dialectal phoneme... as usual here. Wow, we Portuguese-speakers really like to do it all the time in the IPA articles, I'm not feeling obnoxious anymore (with all my madness over little things) thanks to my fellow ones. And since you made me happy, 198-something, I'll just leave a point by the sake of consideração for you. :D

This apparently weird feature is inside my knowledge, because he or she used as an example my native sociolect (or at least the sociolect of my neighbors). Well, my qual of everyday, such as when I will ask qual (which, what) meal is being served for the lunch is pronounced as [ˈkwaw], the habitual for any educated BP speaker, obviously. The problem is if I didn't drank my morning coffee, weak up 7am, didn't eat any breakfast or "morning snack" (one of the 2 Brazilian teas possible), it is 2:30pm and I want lunch. It would really sound [ˈkwɔw] barely opening my mouth, maybe even [ˈkwɒw] (!) since I am, with a murmurred voice, trying to pronounce an "a". It would apply to various other words which feature /wa/ or /aw/. People more used to colloquial speech than me (my dialect is fluminense, but I rather rarely use the sociolect of the carioca worker classes) would do it more times. But this phenomena is very limited to a few speakers (if existing at all, I'm not a source in Linguistics) of one among the most colloquial and least prestigious versions of a worker class, bohemian and lower middle class sociolect of a nowadays lower prestigious dialect of BP. It is not only unreferenced, but also has a disputed notability. So it would not be mantained, I think. Lguipontes (talk) 12:53, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to keep this article.

I notice there is a loss of quality in many phonetics pages. I am pre-emptively arguing for the retention of this page. The opinions of a small number of people that such a vowel symbol is "superfluous" in linguistics comes from a position of spite towards British English in particular. 121.45.171.107 (talk) 01:18, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]