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Does coffee have a you or o sound?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

In RP, the o in coffee is a short open back vowel /ˈkɒf.i/ , whereas in General American speech one often hears either a long open back vowel /ˈkɑ.fi/ or a long mid back vowel /ˈkɔ.fi/

Wiktionary offers two audio fragments that illustrate this difference

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15y ago

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