Talk:Boston

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Pronunciation

@Wolfdog, here's my thoughts on the pronunciation. Yes, obviously Boston has the cot-caught merger. But that means that the way people from the Boston area (such as myself) pronounce Boston can give us no information on whether the word contains /ɒ/ or /ɔ/, since we pronounce /ɒ/ and /ɔ/ the same. To find out whether the US pronunciation of Boston contains /ɒ/ or /ɔ/, you have to depend on the pronunciation of Americans who distinguish the two phonemes, and they say it with /ɔ/. (Whereas British people who distinguish the two phonemes say Boston with /ɒ/.) The US pronunciation should be given primary position since it's a US city; it's not inaccurate to say that Bostonians say Boston with /ɔ/, seeing as how we say Boston with the same vowel we use in law and thought and so on. AJD (talk) 00:03, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

I see your point. I myself (an American) in fact say Boston with [ɔ] or [ɔə], so that representation appeals to me personally (which in no way matters of course). It just seems a bit weird to definitively label another perfectly American option, [ɒ], as "UK". It seems that this just comes down to a matter of transcriptional preference. Again, though, I see your point and won't continue to revert. Thanks for discussing. Wolfdog (talk) 12:52, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you as well! AJD (talk) 18:59, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

It seems that this just comes down to a matter of transcriptional preference. It comes down to how Help:IPA/English works. The /ɔː/ vs. /ɒ/ difference is the difference between the presence vs. the absence of the lot-cloth split, and we never transcribe the cot-caught merger (which renders the lot/cloth distinction meaningless) using the IPAc-en template. Sol505000 (talk) 20:04, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

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