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A few timid speakers will mispronounce it like "coke", but everyone knows they're saying it wrong.

• eli_gottlieb 11y ago
  It's pronounced identically to "caulk", though, not "cock".
  • davidgay 11y ago
    More like somewhere in between, really.
  • davidgrenier 11y ago
    Not 100% confident on how people pronounce "cock" but it's definitely not close to "caulk". Being a french speaker, I would say pronunciation is closer to "puck" with a k, so go with "Kuck".
  • Afton 11y ago
    In my idiolect, those two words are homonyms. When I worked construction, you couldn't ask someone for caulk without raucous laughter. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/caulk http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/caulk this link seems to agree, with the word represented in IPA as [kɔːk]
  • innguest 11y ago
    More information about who in the US has and hasn't merged those two sounds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_low_back_vowels#Cot.E2.80.93caught_merger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Englis... It's the cot-caught merger.