A bizarre incident involving a mentally ill woman recently occurred at a store in Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province, where the suspect, wielding knives and wearing a cat mask, threatened employees and customers, including small children.
When the police arrested her and asked why she did it, she answered “meow” and said, “Can’t tell you that, meow.”
Yeah, but they can significantly overlap.
For example, some London accents pronounce “think” as “fink” and “bottle” as “bo’le” (the apostrophe denoting a glottal stop). Some Glaswegian accents pronounce “father” as “fayther.”
I agree completely. Yet the spelling in each of those scenarios is still identical, which is what I was driving at originally. Colour and color do not denote a difference in pronunciation; and this is backed up by the phonetics listed for the respective words in American and English dictionaries… The phonetics are identical.
Accents muddy this, which is why they should be disregarded when comparing the phonetics between variations of English words.
Otherwise we’d need at least 3 pages for each word in the dictionary just to list the phonetics for each accent in the UK. Let alone the rest of the English speaking nations.