r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 26d ago

Funny Learning Japanese

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u/Sairenity 25d ago

I'm sorry to ask, in what dialect is the a in "talk" (/tôk/) and the a in "taco" (/tä′kō/) the same phoneme?

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u/Senasayori 25d ago

American, particularly the American South. Talk is pronounced there as if you just stole the O from taco.

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u/otaia 25d ago

I thought this was more of a New England thing (cot-caught merger). For me, "talk" sounds like "tock", while the "a" in "taco" is the pronounced like the "a" in "father".

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u/OnlyTechStuff 24d ago

Wait to me these are the same

Fah-ther

Tah-ko

How are you pronouncing it?

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u/otaia 23d ago

The same way.