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> Is “hover” done like “over” (long ‘o’)? No, it's not that - at least in British English - referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English https:/
by cannam 5y ago
> Is “hover” done like “over” (long ‘o’)?
No, it's not that - at least in British English - referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English, "hover" uses ɒ ("LOT, blockade, song") while "lover" uses ʌ ("STRUT, untidy, trustee, sung").
In British English, plover (the bird) rhymes with lover but not with hover.
I always have difficulties in the opposite direction, namely imagining how such vowels can be merged - a classic for me was a programming manual once that told me "char" (the keyword) should be pronounced care, "like the start of the word character". Confused the heck out of me, since where I come from the vowel at the start of the word character is nothing like the one in care.
- jacobolus 5y agoThis British pronunciation of hover https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/hover https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/hover does not sound at all like the vowel in 'lot' or 'song'.
- lucian1900 5y agoLook up lot and song on the same website, it’s the same vowel. Then compare with lover, an entirely different vowel is pronounced.
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- jacobolus 5y agoI did look up lot and song at the same website. The audio examples of British pronunciations provided for those two words use an entirely different vowel sound.
- leoedin 5y agoI'm British, and sitting at my desk saying "hover" "lot" "song" over and over again. They're definitely very close. I say hover like hoh-ver, which is very similar to the vowel I say in lot (loh-t) and song (soh-ng).
- spacedcowboy 5y agoYes. It does. Source: have been British for 54 years Hover is “hovver” Lover is “luvver”