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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Costello

Professor Mark Costello, from the University of Auckland, is the lead author of the study:

http://audioscraps.tistory.com/126

What’s the sound of ‘o’ in Costello: /? / or /? /?
  

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/, the BrE sound in 'cost'. /.

— Fivejedjon

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The speaker pronounces it as /?/, the BrE sound in 'cost'. I, also a native speaker of BrE, would normally pronounce it as : /?/.
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fivejedjonThe speaker pronounces it as /?/, the BrE sound in 'cost'.
Because of my confusion on English vowel sounds, I’ve tried to listen to the pronunciation guide videos of BBC’s Learning English for recent two days. And now I can hear a bit clearer. Yet it may be a long way to go. For my ears are not so young, it’s very hard to catch the sounds delicately.
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