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ɔ

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vowelopen-mid back roundedturned C open Ogenerally the AW soundlax twin of "O"In American transcriptions, o: is often written as o: (e.g. law = lo:), unless it is followed by r, in which case it remains an o:. About 40% of Americans pronounce o: the same way as a:, so that caught and cot have the same vowel:  cot-caught merger.

Front	ɔ
Back	vowel open-mid back rounded turned C open O generally the AW sound lax twin of "O" In American transcriptions, o: is often written as o: (e.g. law = lo:), unless it is followed by r, in which case it remains an o:. About 40% of Americans pronounce o: the same way as a:, so that caught and cot have the same vowel: cot-caught merger.

O ɔ Vowel Open Mid Back Rounded Turned C