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BW2/3 Posted 20 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

golf and gulf

Are the words gulf and golf pronounced the same?

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I have heard gulf pronounced only one way, but I have heard golf pronounced two different ways, one of them equivalent to gulf. I think the majority of people in the U.S. pronounce them differently.

CJ
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I THINK THEY PRONUNCED DIFFERENTLY
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10I have heard 11i10gulf12i10 pronounced only one way12br
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10Really? Which way? The Southwesterners that I met tended to pronounce "ul" /@l/ as [ ol ] (e.g. dull=dole). In my dialect the pronunciation of "ul" is more variable, with 'gulf' pronounced as [ gAl
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0For those who are more familiar with IPA:02br
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00- golf => [05005105205300] or [05405505600]02br
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00- gulf => [057058059051000]. 02br
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0 Conchita,02br
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00 I would have said those were the only 'standard' pronunciations in BrE, yes. The vowel shown for 'golf' would be different in AmE (the 01i00a02i00 in 01i00father02i00), but that shown for 'gulf' would be the same.02br
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00 Marvin,02br
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00I misspoke. "heard
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Totally different!

If a weather caster pronounces The Gulf of Mexico as the “Golf” of Mexico, I change the channel.

if you can say

sea gull or Jethro Tull

you can say Gulf correctly

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