Yeah, because it's not the stressed vowel in the word it's probably for most of us a sort of rounded schwa more than anything else. The commercial I'm arguing with has a whole mid-back diphthong in there, which sounds more wrong to me than a whole high-back one. But I'm interested that you think you have more "o" than I think I have; maybe it's a regional difference. (People often talk about going on a "tore" of the White House, for example, which I don't care for at all but have learned to let go.) (I'd even rather have "too-er" with two distinct syllables, if I can't have "tour" as I pronounce it with about a syllable and a half. But what can you do.)
Standing up for people with my dialect everywhere: bouquet and okay totally rhyme for me. (Also an acceptable pronounciation according to Am. Her. Dictionary.)
No idea (I mean, how would I know?). I also don't believe you when you say the words rhyme in your dialect; that's how wrong it sounds to me. If you don't have "boo" in the first syllable, until I hear you pronounce the word I will insist that you don't have as much "boe" as the woman in the commercial. :-)
Dictionary claims hardly ever get far with me, because their function is to describe what occurs, and in matters such as these my function is prescribe what should occur. :-D
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Is this a national commerical spot or a local?
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Dictionary claims hardly ever get far with me, because their function is to describe what occurs, and in matters such as these my function is prescribe what should occur. :-D