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<p>According to the Klingon Wiki,</p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana,
Times, serif; font-size: 16.8px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important;
float: none;">TKD describes the letter<span> </span></span><strong
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
Tahoma, Verdana, Times, serif; font-size: 16.8px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">o</strong><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana,
Times, serif; font-size: 16.8px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important;
float: none;"><span> </span>as in "go or mosaic". This is
confusing, because English speakers would do that with a
diphthong, rhyming "go" with "glow" and saying "mosaic" like
"mow-saic". This is not what Okrand intended. He just wanted
to make clear that it's not o like in "cop" or "pot". The
sound still is a clear "o" without a following u sound. The
word<span> </span></span><strong style="font-weight: bold;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Times,
serif; font-size: 16.8px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a
href="http://klingon.wiki/bin/view/En/QepHom" style="color:
rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">qepHom</a></strong><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana,
Times, serif; font-size: 16.8px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important;
float: none;"><span> </span>should NOT rhyme with "home".</span></p>
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<p>ORLY? Where does this revelation come from? TKD says that <b>o</b>
sounds exactly the same as <b>ow</b> — meaning it's a diphthong
that sounds exactly the same as American English <i>go.</i><br>
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