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The 'o' in boy is 'oh', that in buoy is 'oy'; the distinction is subtle, but can be heard, plus the latter is slightly longer. Edited: - Maybe this will help:
by dfawcus 5y ago
The 'o' in boy is 'oh', that in buoy is 'oy'; the distinction is subtle, but can be heard, plus the latter is slightly longer.
Edited: - Maybe this will help:
http://www.employees.org/~dfawcus/Good-Boy_Life-Buoy.m4a http://www.employees.org/~dfawcus/Good-Boy_Life-Buoy.m4a
- dfawcus 5y agoSo I should probably have written 'some Brits'... Anyway, if someone can't hear the difference in that sample, load it in to an audio editor, and see that (in a time / amplitude graph) the two words have different shapes. I've not got a tool for graphing the frequency content to hand, so can't easily see how those would be distinguished.