Re: Barbara Bush Re: ASCII convention


Colin Fine wrote:

> > The poor/pour merger is also pretty common in British English; I
> > pronounce "pour", "poor", "pore" and (being non-rhotic) "paw"
> > identically in normal speech.
>
> I would put it more strongly: <poor> and <pour> are homophones in
> British English.

I have [pw@]; how would that sound to Brits?

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