Discussion Groups / British English / December 2004

(The sentense seems better with "his" in it)

The vowels I missed were Schwa, Barred i, and [a:] the
vowel in father&calm.

I don't think there's a word that's pronounced [ha:d]
in standard American English.

(Btw, [a] and [a:] are never contrastive, right?
I smell a linguistic anecdote.)

Maybe someone can make a longer sentence including
these, diphthongs, Heard, Hard, Horde, etc.
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hod
Etymology: probably from Middle Dutch hodde; akin to
Middle High German hotte cradle
1 : a tray or trough that has a pole handle and that
is borne on the shoulder for carrying loads (as of
mortar or brick)
2 : a coal scuttle
[hod illustration] http://m-w.com/mw/art/hod.htm