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Can't say I detect a difference. Might be an Aus-E thing: https://youglish.com/pronounce/rose/english/aus https://youglish.com/pronounce/rose/english/aus http

Can't say I detect a difference. Might be an Aus-E thing: https://youglish.com/pronounce/rose/english/aus https://youglish.com/pronounce/rose/english/aus https://youglish.com/pronounce/tone/english/aus https://youglish.com/pronounce/tone/english/aus But I would have thought I use -əʊ- for both, which is what's shown as the Br-E pronunciation for both words on that site.

torstenvl 4y ago
That's what's shown for the phonetics, yes, but we aren't talking about phonemes, we're talking about phonological effects, specifically the anticipatory assimilation of [n] into the preceding vowel. (Note: One wonderfully weird thing about English is that different types of phonological assimilation happen in different directions, e.g., voice assimilation happens the other way, so "fads" is pronounced as if it had a "z" at the end and "putz" is pronounced as if it had an "s" at the end, i.e., "fadz"/"puts" rather than "fats"/"pudz")