Recent content by Tharthan

That's not a short "o", that's an "aw" sound. Perhaps you have the cot-caught merger, and do not pronounce "aw" separately from "ah" except before the letter "r"? That may be why you're calling it a short o. Read this...

Ah, that's what I reckoned. Just wanted to make sure, though. So you use both "mah-ree-oh" and "marry-oh"? Interesting. Well, you do know me on another forum. I used the same avatar and everything there. Or do you mean another forum besides that one?

@Glowsquid I know that it sounds like a pretty petty pet peeve, but it's like nails on a chalkboard for me when someone talks with that merger. And since English has a lot of words that have -er-, -ar- and -arr- in them, I have to hear this sound merger from people far too often. Seriously, it's...

Is that "warry" as in rhyming with "marry" (I don't have the merry, Mary, marry merger that some people on my continent have, don't worry. My dialect [a subdialect of New England English, which is a group of dialects spoken in the region of New England on the northeastern coast of the United...

Do you say War-io (/wɔ:ɹioʊ/) or Wah-rio (/wɑːɹioʊ/)? I personally say War-io, but I have friends who say Wah-rio.