Ambiguous AHD/AmE pronunciation guides

[James Harbeck]

In fact, it was from pronunciation guides in teach-yourself books on
other languages that I figured out that there were anglophones who
somehow differentiated, for instance, "caught" and "cot". (And, on
the other hand, it always nagged the back of my mind that no
distinction was made between the vowels in "eyes" and "ice" -- which
are different where I come from.)

James Harbeck.

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