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                                            James Salsman

The listed pronunciation of "for" and "four" both sound like "far"

Finally! Thank you! Everyone in North America pronounces "for" and "four" as F OW R. I had given up on this. I can't believe I wasn't able to communicate it....

The listed pronunciation of "for" and "four" both sound like "far"

@tjmahr can you find any actual examples of North American English speakers pronouncing "for" or "four" the same as "far"? I can't.

The listed pronunciation of "for" and "four" both sound like "far"

@lenzo-ka how do you feel that http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict?in=four doesn't produce F OW R? That is how everyone in North America pronounces it, and there are dozens of the same mistake throughout...

The listed pronunciation of "for" and "four" both sound like "far"

@tjmahr I was just able to tally it from randomly selected YouTube videos with "four" in the transcript taken from a search on "interview of English speaker", of diverse ages,...