Hi everyone!
I have another question about pronunciation. Why do English people often pronounce 'love' as [lɔv]and not [lʌv]? Even Americans, whose [ɔ] almost always sounds as [ʌ] (not, cop, God etc).
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Hi everyone!
I have another question about pronunciation. Why do English people often pronounce 'love' as [lɔv]and not [lʌv]? Even Americans, whose [ɔ] almost always sounds as [ʌ] (not, cop, God etc).
I don't think there's much point in asking why languages work the way they do. They just do.
"Love" has been in the English language as long as there has been such a thing as an English language, so there are countless possible explanations for a divergence between pronunciation and spelling. Even just within the UK there's a huge range of (equally correct) pronunciations.
I just thought there could be a logic explanation, in what cases I should pronounce with[ ɔ] or with [ʌ].Quote:
Originally Posted by zedeeyen
Anyway thank you for your answer.
not, cop, God
These are [nat, kap, gad]. No [ɔ] or [ʌ] in US English
Just like rough, through, thorough, brought, no logical explanation any more if there ever was. Don't worry about language history.