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Pronunciation
oji-san Started conversation Feb 25, 2009
I think a couple of the pronounciation examples are potentially misleading. I realise it is pretty much impossible to give an accurate representation using English but...
"a as the 'a' in 'father' "
Perhaps the author is from the North of England 
. I would say that (for a British English speaker) "a as in 'pat'" would be more accurate.
"o as the 'o' in 'horse' "
Surely, only if you pronounce 'horse' as 'hoss'... I would suggest 'pot'. Although I saw 'pot' used as the example for 'a' in an American book once, which threw me completely for a while.
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