Here is the graphic from the current, third, edition (2008). ![]() It’s in the second edition (2000) onwards. So last night I felt obliged to point out that in my Longman Pronunciation Dictionary I made known the results of the preference poll I conducted into the pronunciation of this word. "One" has the LOT vowel, not the STRUT one, for an awful lot of people.In fact, the the STRUT vowel there sounds very archaic/dialectal to me To me, pronouncing "one" with STRUT is part of a cruel parody of ultra-conservative RP ("where hez wun's het gawn?"). And some people’s perception of reality appeared to be very, shall we say, partial. Although it was somewhat off-topic, people commenting started discussing the pronunciation of one. ![]() ![]() Judging by the comments on yesterday’s posting, it looks as if I sometimes don’t bang the drum loudly enough about what I have published.
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