I’d call it a burr/purr rhyme. b. So to British, Australian, or New York ears, the Canadian syllables might sound uncomfortably close to ‘whore/hoar’ and ‘sore.’ No, it definitely doesn’t match ‘flaw’ as it is in most American accents. I agree, though, with your observation that the flaw vowel seems to come closer to the group 2 vowel than the group one vowel. As for Canadian French swear words, you will notice that they mainly refer to Christian rites or objects. Same with the word orange and Florida. d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (79.83%) Public. Isn’t core in group (1)? And “fury” has the vowel of CURE. And curt and cater have the same vowel, but that’s not the same as a schwa. I think the only way ‘horrible’ could be an allophone of ‘goat’ is in accents where ‘goat’ is still a back rounded near monophthong, which isn’t the default in western speech, esp. It lists both /lʊər/ and /lɔr/, neither of which rhyme with “pure” for me. That “eastern” sound associated with San Francisco is very old. Relevance. There is no way to test this, though, since no one in the world has a PALM-LOT-THOUGHT-NORTH-FORCE separation. 11. the first vowel in “Florida” e. other (0.67%), New Mexico: D: I’ve always been under the impression that DOLLAR was a pro-rounding environment, especially in non atlantic canadian accents. I’ve only heard “lawyer” with the THOUGHT vowel (i.e. So to British, Australian, or New York ears, the Canadian syllables might sound uncomfortably close to ‘whore/hoar’ and ‘sore.’. b. I’ve only heard Northeasterners pronounce horror and orange with (what is to me) the “ar” sound. Zhuyin Fuhao says it should be u*+eng. c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (1.97%) How to say sorry. Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Canada. Dialect or not, the correct pronunciation of horror is “whore-er” as all dictionaries have it. c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (1.49%) ... Canadian politician who is the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada, and the leader of the Liberal Party b. Pronunciation. 1 1. I’ve read that accents like this keep [ɑ] before /r/, but I find it hard to digest, esp. Slightly off-topic, but have you tried anywhere to contrast two accents (eg British RP and General American) by showing two IPO vowel charts with, in each case, the ‘live’ vowels circled? Hello. There are exceptions to this, in the Eastern United States, but for the most part /or/, /orr/, and /oor/ aren’t much distinguished on this side of the Atlantic. a. lol. [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (2.54%) what I called group (1). b. as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (11.37%) Do you have a Canadian accent quiz. Well, in many varieties of North American English (including General American), /or/ words of any kind–‘horrible,’ ‘porridge,’ ‘sore,’ ‘poor‘–are all pronounced with the same vowel, roughly akin to the ‘aw’ sound in ‘flaw.’ ([ɔ] in the IPA.) [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (1.62%) The latter set of words often distinguishes Canadian pronunciation from U.S. pronunciation. An excerpt from How to Be a Canadian (Even if You Already Are One) by Ian and Will Ferguson. Without resyllabification, the cot-caught mergers would say LAH-yer. c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (1.27%) How about referees and broadcasters spending a couple of minutes on the pronunciation guide, then the domino effect should take over and everyone will have it mastered. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the Cambridge English Dictionary. How to Say SORRY -- American English Pronunciation - YouTube Anonymous. As Bob the Canadian mentioned, it can be very helpful to record yourself on your phone when practicing pronunciation. d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (87.57%) Wiktionary does list that. So how do Canadians pronounce the sorrow-borrow set? LAW-yer) in the US, and not often even there, even though that must logically have been the original pronunciation. Pronunciation of canadian with 2 audio pronunciations, 5 synonyms, 2 meanings, 11 translations, 44 sentences and more for canadian. In Standard Canadian English, there is no distinction between the vowels in horse and hoarse. How to pronounce sorry. It’s true, pre-r vowels are their own thing in American English, as are pre-l vowels. Pronunciation of Justin trudeau with 1 audio pronunciation, 2 meanings, 5 translations, 20 sentences and more for Justin trudeau. a. (Scottish English has identical vowels +/- R in TRAP-START LOT-NORTH KIT-DIRT DRESS-FERN STRUT-NURSE FACE-SQUARE GOAT-FORCE PRICE-wire MOUTH-sour cute-CURE). Question 1a: How do Canadians pronounce "eh?"? e. other (2.79%), source: http://dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q_11.html. d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (89.87%), California: e. other (3.20%). Sorry for that. There is a case that "lurry" is the original pronunciation. Actually, it’s probably more accurate to say the “lure” is not part of my active vocabulary so I don’t truly have a pronunciation for it. e. other (0.84%). 11. the first vowel in “Florida” If I had to guess, I would link the “horror” with “sorror” pronunciation in the bay area as a by-product of the different migration patters, where socal was more of a midlands/south midlands point, I know san francisco had a substantial amount of influx from families from the northeast, where “horror” can have the “sorrow” vowel. Regardless of gender, pronounce the entire phrase: I’m American and I split those words into two groups like you say: (1) horrible, horror, porridge, sore, for, four [for me, poor does not sound the same — rather, it rhymes with lure, tour, contour]. b. Pingback: This Week’s Language Blog Roundup | Wordnik ~ all the words. In my accent (grew up in NorCal and Maryland) horror is with the “or” sound, i.e. c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (1.68%) The Online Etymological Dictionary gives this origin: "a truck; a long, flat wagon," 1838, British railroad word, probably from verb lurry "to pull, tug"(1570s), of uncertain origin. The pun in the title derives from the fact that, for accents that make the distinction, ‘horribly’ and ‘sorry’ are pronounced with the ‘short-o’ in ‘lot’ (i.e. Linguists would cringe. Any data in regional variation within California on the pronunciation of horror? Most Anglo- Canadians (English speaking) don't believe they sound any different than most central-west coast Americans but I'm "Sorey" to say there are some very obvious differences that you may not be aware of eh Is English unique in this? Canadians (or those familiar with the Canadian accent), may recognize the weak pun in today’s title: ‘I’m horribly sorry‘ can sound to someone from the UK or elsewhere a bit like ‘I’m hoarably sorey.’ (I’m using ‘hoar’ to be family friendly; if you replace the syllable with the more illicit word that sounds exactly like ‘hoar,’ it will result in a much more disturbing pun). A larger number, 28 million people, … Canadians don’t have different words that mean “I’m sorry,” but they do have different meanings for the words, as indicated by things like inflection. d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (83.56%) 5 years ago. This seems utterly wrong to me; it’s definitely not the pure/poor split that I grew up speaking. ‘Sorry’ would fall into the cot-caught and ‘Horrible’ into horse-hoarse, so it would seem that, unlike canadians, they do distinguish between the two. The question for me is whether we use the “ar” sound (which is interchangeably [ɑɻ] or [äɻ]) or the “or” sound [oɻ]. Press J to jump to the feed. It shows that people who do have THOUGHT in the USA use /Q:/ a unique phone. c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (1.47%) Brits re-syllabify EYE-dee-a to EYE-dee(r) and Yanks and Canucks change hurry and marry and merry and horrible and orange. It should be noted that there is more than one type of Canadian English. Canada is big. Peter, my point was that in my mind, there’s multiple correct pronunciations for “lure”. Unlike other Canadian/American differences, this can’t be explained by vowel shifts or loaned British pronunciations. **LAX**, Because of the father-bother merger, you have a starry-sorry merger. Trawicks wrote: “But what about ‘sorry?’ Here is where things get complicated. While French swear words are almost always related to sex or sexual behaviours. What do you mean by your dialect? The words origin, Florida, horrible, quarrel, warren, as well as tomorrow, sorry, sorrow, etc. [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (6.72%) S/ɑ/rry about that; I stand corrected–my idiolect. And if I had to equate the vowel of horrible with a non-r vowel, I’d definitely associate it with vowel of goat. The vowel that I use in “flaw” does not sound to me like the vowel I use in “sorry”, “borrow” and “tomorrow”. I agree. xD. That's why they said a Canadian accent. In Canada, meanwhile, all such /or/ words have the ‘aw’ vowel, including ‘sorry.’  Why is ‘sorry’ an odd word out in America but not for our neighbors to the North? There also “oor”, [uɻ], used for lure, tour, moor, spoor, and poor. d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (80.60%) I posit that Americans have a FORCE-NORTH merger and Brits have a NORTH-FORCE merger. b. Americans who are cot-caught un-merged do NOT use the same vowel for “sort” and “sought.” Some Americans may use [O:r] like a rhotic Brit in “sort” but it’s an underlying /o@r/. I suspect that pronouncing lure as /lɔr/ is common in England, where the poor/pour merger is prevalent. Or, better yet: her, who’re, hoar. The best example I’ve heard was about 20 years ago, from a woman who was then in her 80’s. Pronunciation of Canadian French with 2 audio pronunciations, 1 synonym, 1 meaning, 15 translations and more for Canadian French. That’s one possible pronunciation. So, purr, or poor (when different from pore) or pore. That I disagree with wholeheartedly. He makes up with it by speaking french though xD [come to think of it, I didn’t bother to ask how he pronounces “sorry” or check for ‘bag/egg’ raising. Conditioned mergers, et al are irrelevant. [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (33.41%) The phrase "Je suis" means "I am," and "désolé" means "sorry" in the form of an adjective. d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (43.01%) as an example. Canadians are also known for saying "sorry" a lot more than Americans. 3 Comments. But some Canadian French words and expressions are local specialties. In many types of British English, by contrast, ‘poor,’ ‘sore’ and ‘horrible’ can be pronounced with three entirely different vowels (although this is more commonly two in contemporary accents). But then it shows NORTH as [O:] to match British NO(R)TH and THOUGHT. It's sorry. “Sahr-y” sounds closer to prestige accents than “Sorey.” There is no correlation between Americans choosing to re-syllabify with a tense or lax r-controlled vowel. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog: http://dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q_11.html, This Week’s Language Blog Roundup | Wordnik ~ all the words, Arrr, Matey! What other types of videos do you want to see? A participant from the U.S. (California, to be specific) commented, 'I thought Canadian "eh" is pronounced "ey", as a diphthong.' Spoiler alert: these loonies and toonies aren’t the same as that commonly known American childhood cartoon. [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (0.58%) The differences are perhaps less dramatic than those between BrE dialects or even AmE dialects, but they do exist, and it’s not just Newfoundlanders & TheRestofUs. ". e. other (1.73%), Nevada: According to the 2016 census, English was the first language of more than 19.4 million Canadians or 58.1% of the total population; the remainder of the population were native speakers of Canadian French (20.8%) or other languages (21.1%). e. other (5.97%), Idaho: **TENSE**, “Sorry” becomes “sahr-y” or START. The differences between French from France and French from Canada are mainly in pronunciation. We’re not sorry anymore, say it like it should be, Denis Shapovalov (final tip: accent on first and third syllables). But what about ‘sorry?’ Here is where things get complicated. Except some Irish speakers, but they have NORTH as LOT + R and not as THOUGHT + R. Celtic-area speakers are not good samples because they exhibit very little R-breaking or coloring or smoothing. c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (1.89%) I say Sar-E: ) Answer Save. Favorite Answer. [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (11.94%) In my idiolect, [ɔ] is definitely an allophone of /o/. Although it’s not as odd, IMO, as words in Wells’ CURE set, which in General American can have the vowel in NORTH, NURSE or FEWER. [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (2.67%) Without resyllabification, the cot-caught mergers would say LAH-yer. Maybe the french people. [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (10.98%) (I’ll acknowledge an objection from the more linguistically advanced: you could make the case that in Western American accents, ‘-orr’ words like ‘horrible’ are merging with the vowel in ‘core,’ which can further be argued to be an allophone of the /o/ in ‘goat.’ Still, that doesn’t quite explain why /orr/ words have joined two different phonemic camps.). c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (3.11%) c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (18.10%) However, I don’t think group (1) sounds like flaw, at least not the way I pronounce flaw. Pronunciation model: Canadian English. d. as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (73.38%) Horrible and orange both become FORCE, just as trawicks post in the title. In Canada, "sorry" rhymes with "story". People joke that if you step on a Canadians foot, they will say sorry to you! /hɒɹɪbli/ and /sɒɹi/). Hence about comes out "ow followed by schwa e. I am sorry that I am not able to use the linguistic analytical symbols since it has been too long since that was part of my repertoire. Look at the merry-Mary-marry merger. It makes the cot-caught merged/unmerged baffling to a Brit, especially a non-rhotic one. [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (7.35%) So it’s nothing about that specific word. Exactly! I can’t account for every regional accent, but my impression is that for most, sorry has the ‘short-o’ in ‘lot,’ while horrible has an entirely different ‘aw’ sound ([ɔ] or [o]). This is why Americans pronounce “sort” (NORTH) differently from “sought” (THOUGHT). ... see im canadian but i don't know how i pronounce it cause i never say sorry >=] 3 1. If so, that would be your accent or your idiolect, not your dialect. I’m Anthony St. George on location here in Washington. LAWYER has suffered ressyllabification from law-yer to lawy-er, The pun in the title derives from the fact that, for accents that make the distinction, ‘horribly’ and ‘sorry’ are pronounced with the ‘short-o’ in ‘l o t’ (i.e. 10 years ago. It may have been localized within the City, though. Yong could be seen as kind of like ee-OO-uhng. So for ‘general’ western speech, we can take it to be cot-caught merged and horse-hoarse merged. The different ways Canadian and Americans say words. Point of interest: in american accents where they are horse-hoarse merged and cot-caught is generally realized as more [ɔ] like [ie. a. as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (4.95%) [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (1.47%) You mentioned 3 or 4 different areas of the country (depending on where in Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas), so at least 3 different dialects. A toonie, the name for the $2 coin, gained a similar nickname to match the sound of the loonie. One way of smoothing seems to be saying it as ee-UNG (with the sound of “put”). Since LAW-yer is impossible, they re-syllabify to LOY-er since it mirrors the prestige accent. a. m.m. Question 1b: Is it a reasonable approximation of the Spanish pronunciation of the vowel e (as in, for example, bebé)? d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (86.53%) I know sure and your can land on either side, but I thought lure always went with pure in the pure/poor split. But despite language being affected by isolated communities, multiple official languages, extensive immigration, and American influence, we can usually get our point across to one another. [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (7.25%) A nice near-minimal triple is safari-sorry-story. The Hanyu Pinyin writing seems to endorse this. when my ‘sorry’ can be either [ɑ] or [ɒ] (I also don’t see [ɔ] as an allophone of ‘horrible’, which Ive always associate as [o]) Perhaps my lect is just really messed up? Perhaps there might be a connection? 1. the first vowel in “Florida” By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (10.92%) e. other (2.94%), Vermont: “or”: horrible, course, coarse, horse, porridge, sore, for… An interesting thing happens, where the words “sorry” and “sari” (an Indian women’s garment) are pronounced differently in Canadian accents (/sɔri/ vs. /sɑri/, whereas they are pronounced exactly the same in American accents (both as /sɑri/). AL, for me, lure, tour, contour and poor all rhyme as well, but do have the same sound as horrible, etc. Since LAW-yer is impossible, they re-syllabify to LOY-er since it mirrors the prestige accent. Similarly, court is halfway in between coat and caught. If you have newscasters all over the world saying LAW-ye(r), you can’t switch to saying LAH-yer. where its beginning to unround & front. Identify a word you usually struggle with, and find a tv show, movie or YouTube video where a native speaker uses it in a sentence. Or does /or/ follow an entirely different pattern? Lieutenant A military and police ranking in Canada that is pronounced as “LEF-tennant” and in the U.S. as “LEW-tennant” Process Canadians PRO-cess information; Americans PRAW-cess information. You have other instances of smoothing like u+eng is “weng,” but du+eng is “dong” (with the sound of “put”). The Origins of the Pirate Accent, When Did Americans Stop "Talking British? I agree; the r vowels are different from the non-r vowels. If I were to use the vowel that I use in “flaw” in “sorry”, “borrow”, and “tomorrow”, I feel like the pronunciation would sound more American than Canadian. [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (7.25%) Yeah I wonder if that is a typo, because the premise is that the word sorry would be pronounced as sore-y and that it is typical of Canadians to pronounce it that way, as oppose to the American pronounciation “Saw-ri”, correction sah-ry, not saw-ry which seems too rounded. a. I’d add a “pure” rhyme (though without the y sound) as a 3rd possible pronunciation. r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions. a. Canadian English, Find a Job, Canadian Workplace Culture, Your Health in Canada, Citizenship and Immigration, 5 Stages of Culture shock, Important Work Skills in Canada, Body Language in Canada, Canadian Experience, Showing Respect at Work, Talking to your Doctor, Canadian Pronunciation, What Canadian Talk about, Speaking Politely in Canada, Canadian Communication Style, Canadian … Canadian English, Find a Job, Canadian Workplace Culture, Your Health in Canada, Citizenship and Immigration, 5 Stages of Culture shock, Important Work Skills in Canada, Body Language in Canada, Canadian Experience, Showing Respect at Work, Talking to your Doctor, Canadian Pronunciation, What Canadian Talk about, Speaking Politely in Canada, Canadian Communication Style, Canadian … The most logical (in my auto-didactic opinion) is re-syllabification. has it right. In Canada, meanwhile, all such /or/ words have the ‘aw’ vowel, including ‘sorry.’”. Any ideas? In many American accents, ‘horrible,’ ‘Florida’ and ‘corridor’ are pronounced with the vowel in ‘flaw.’ But ‘sorry,’ ‘borrow’ and ‘tomorrow’ have the same vowel in ‘lot,’ as in British accents. compare with New Jersey (the land of ”Flahrida, ahrange, hahrrible): 11. the first vowel in “Florida” A loonie, the Canadian $1 coin, gets its name from the picture of the Canadian bird, the loon, that appears on one side of the coin. b. Do you mean in your individual speech? 11. the first vowel in “Florida” all generally use the sound sequence of FORCE rather than START. What’s interesting is that in this case, /or/ words have split in a way that isn’t entirely predictable. In my dialect, horrible, porridge, and sore–and Oh!–have the diphthong vowel /ou/, poor is pronounced /’pu ɚ/, and sorry has the vowel /ɑ/–the same one, I think, that I use in father and merged cot and caught. Cancel Create. [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (1.55%) I have seen, I have not observed widely divergent phonemic differences among (1962 central–Peoria not Lake Michigan) Illinois, Kansas, and (Kansas City) Missouri. 11. the first vowel in “Florida” I think this would be a nice way of making the contrast (at least in vowel term) clear. d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (86.76%) “Lawyer” has the CHOICE vowel (LOY-er) in most British English varieties , even ones with distinct COT-CAUGHT. If anything, for me the vowel in flaw sounds more like the ‘o’ in group (2). “ar”: borrow, sorry, tomorrow, sorrow. Meaning "large motor vehicle for … Accents. (Congrats!). Some Californians use the ”or” vowel in -sorry, tomorrow-. But I’m not sure I trust Wiktionary on the pure/poor split after noticing that they give /ˈlɔrɪd/ rather than /ˈlɜrɪd/ as an alternate pronunciation for lurid. so LAWYER is pronounced as if it were spelled LOYER, it rhymes with TOYER: ”One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler”. This way is endorsed by the semi-syllabary Zhuyin Fuhao. Anonymous. I’ve heard a fake American accent say “I went to cot (court).” I think Americans can use [O:] or [o:] but to prevent confusion, use /o:r/ for the phoneme which is closer to the original /o@r/ of FORCE. Lucy Punch did a convincing American accent in ”Bad teacher”…I thought she was American until she pronounced -sorry- with a rounded vowel (”or)” which was enough for me to go to Wikipedia and see where she was from. How to say canadian in English? *sub ‘accent’ for ‘dialect in there if you prefer. My Mandarin is very weak, but it seems that there are two competing pronunciations for consonant+iong (in Hanyu Pinyin). b. So to me it sounds like hah-rer, ahrange, Flahrida. No phonemic mergers, however. 11.the first vowel in “Florida” On thing that I’m surprised by in Ellen’s comment is that for her, lure doesn’t rhyme with pure but with poor. But I guess it’s a minority. Canadian actors are made well aware of their accents while working in the U.S. because even a single word pronounced the wrong way is enough to stop filming. next time! the first vowel in “Florida” I’ve heard some Canadians use the ”are” vowel in -tomorrow- (but never in -sorry-). Write "désolé" if you're male and "désolée" if you're female. Joking aside, though, what’s going on here? **LAX**, “Hurry” becomes “hur-y” or NURSE. Why pronunciation differs . It is difficult for me to divorce the (1) sound from its ‘r’. That's why they said a Canadian accent. Listen to the pronunciation a few times, and then record yourself speaking it. Show more answers (9) Re: males from toronto lacking rounded DOLLAR – sources? The underlying phonology is initial+medial+final or i+u+eng. So Canadian raising is a systematic change in the pronunciation of the diphthong /au/, such that the first part of the diphthong is pronounced slightly higher in the mouth when it’s in front of a voiceless sound. You can hear Denis pronouncing his own name at this link. What a number of people call the Bay Area accent as sounding like the Northeast is the result of the huge influx of people from the Northeast to the area, especially San Francisco. Like roughly the same size as all of Europe big. Sorry! c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (2.31%) Is it “NORTH-i-ble” and “FORCE-ange”? Feels a bit disappoing, like when I met a 20yo native torontonian with no signs of the canadian shift or canadian raising, birthing his nickname ‘fauxrontian’. ... Secondly, as Boberg indicates, Canadian English renders words such as borrow, sorry and tomorrow with the FORCE vowel. c. as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (7.09%) For me, car/sorry isn’t either the vowel of pot/father or the vowel of caught, but somewhere in between. Hanyu Pinyin says it is i+ong. Or do sore and core not have the same vowel for everyone? However, it’s fairly close to the ‘l-colored’ vowel in ‘ball’ for at least some American speakers, which is why if it weren’t for ‘sorry,’ ‘borrow,’ etc, I would just assume it to be an allophone (of either the ‘thought’ or ‘lot’ vowels). Someone mentioned the various pronunciations of “dollar”, but in my area it often comes out as “dah-wer” (the Philly accent). Though it doesn’t match either of them. As a Canadian, I'd like to apologize for not making it clear how to spell sorry in Canadian. You should also pronounce “About,” as “Aboot” and say, “Pardon me,” instead of “Excuse me.” Refer to other Canadians as “Canucks.” Use Canadian slang for money too, like a “loony” for a Canadian dollar, a “toony” for 2 dollars, and a “fiver” for a 5 dollar bill. It seems widespread. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. For me (native near-RP), “safari” has the vowel of FAther (or START), “sorry” has the vowel of LOT and “story” has the vowel of FORCE. In the American West you get LAW with [ɑ] but LAWYER with [ɔ], I should mention that Cambridge pronunciation dictionary SORT OF agrees with me on the LOT-THOUGHT-NORTH business. That being said, I don’t know enough about NIrish English to make any definitive statements, but my mum frequently said that the accent in the part of Southern Ontario where we lived seemed to be strongly influenced by Northern Irish English. My father pronounces it with the sore sound (he’s from Southern California), while my mother, siblings and I all pronounce it with the sorrow sound (we’re all Bay Area products). Until age 30, I lived in 4 midwestern U.S. states: Illinois (till age 1), Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and have lived in the eastern U.S. in central Pennsylvania for 20 years. 19 Answers. None of this really explains, however, why Canadians went fully in one direction, but Americans didn’t. Some states where General American is spoken: Colorado: I think this regrouping phenomenon can only happen in languages with diphthongs or triphthongs. SIMPLE! I’ve got the Californian utter lack of [ɔ], replaced by [ɑ] or [o]. I grew up in southern New Jersey and now live in eastern PA. For me, it’s: But we also have had a condo in Florida for a few years that we visit about once a month, so maybe my pronunciation of “Florida” has evolved slightly. It occurs only under specific conditions: /0/ followed by r, the /ɔi/ diphthong, and (I think) when /0/ is followed by l. Being a fully-merged Californian, I don’t have a separate “aw” vowel, and use ɑ for all the words that might be ɔ or ɒ in another accent. Canadians say “sorry” an awful lot, but they rarely apologize. Also, I don’t understand how group (1) is “merging” with core. In many American accents, ‘horrible,’ ‘Florida’ and ‘corridor’ are pronounced with the vowel in ‘flaw.’ But ‘sorry,’ ‘borrow’ and ‘tomorrow’ have the same vowel in ‘lot,’ as in British accents. [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (1.27%) It’s a red herring; Americans simply chose the r-controlled vowel that sounded closest to the prestige accent! b. 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