Letter o is pronounced in many different ways in English. Here we have a few illustrative examples of such diversity: Hot[hɒt] in RP, but [hɑ:t] in GA; love[lʌv]; corn [kɔ:n] in RP, but [kɔ:rn] in GA; continue[kənˈtɪnju:]; moon[mu:n]; coast[kəʊst] in RP, but [koʊst] in GA; house[haʊs]. The so-called “short o”, which often appears in a stressed syllable with one letter o such as in dog or model, underwent a change in American English. In British English that sound is pronounced as an open back rounded short sound [ɒ], as in hot[hɒt], or possible [ˈpɒsəbl]. In American English it is pronounced either as an open back unrounded long sound [ɑ:], as in hot[hɑ:t], or as an open-mid back rounded long vowel [ɔ:], as in dog[dɔ:g]. Note that British English prefers a short sound as opposed to American English, which prefers a long sound in all cases. Table 2 shows several words in both pronunciations.