Lori wrote:
> More confusion: if you're from the U.S. state
> of Wisconsin you might pronounce "sorry" to rhyme
> with "gory," as a friend of mine from Ripon, WI,
> does.
Then kerry wrote:
> Huh??? I was trying to keep up with this, but now
> I'm stumped. Here in
> WisCONsin, Lori, gory, glory and sorry all rhyme!
> I guess words have to be
> written phonetically, rather than compared to a
> rhyming word. Isn't the
> British lorry pronunciation more like "LAH-ry?"
Then catman wrote:
> No way! That is how an American would say it. how on
> earth gory, glory and sorry can rhyme
> I have no clue! Sorry has a short o and gory/glory a
> long. The fist part of sorry does not
> sound like saw.
>
and, I think Kerry wrote:
> > That's how Cat Stevens says
> > it in one of his songs.
I'm wondering whether we're all getting mixed up over
what exactly makes a long o and a short o. To me,
what Kerry said makes perfect sense. To me, Cat
Stevens DOES sound like he's saying "lah-ry" in "Where
do the children play?" which, to me, sounds a bit more
like a short a, I guess.
And, to me, Lori, gory, glory and sorry all rhyme and
I wouldn't exactly call it a long o OR a short o, so
I'm confused too. Maybe it's more like a medium o! A
short o is like the o in cot or bought. A long o is
like the o (with some help from a) in coat or boat. A
long o is kind of like an o sound with a w sound after
it. When you put an r after an o, it changes the
sound of it, but I wouldn't call it long OR short.
And I'm not from Wisconsin.
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