Re: looking for a limerick

"Paul" <paulmathewmac@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:df3fcf65-3ddb-49cb-8850-46f8ebca5505@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> And the auditory difference between the 'o' vowel (sort of a 'flat o'
> or an 'o' with a front vowel resonance) in 'for' and the  'deep
> o' (with a back vowel resonance) in 'four' could only be lost on a
> rock band desperately looking for a name for itself, sufficientlyf
> shocking to those of us with finer sensibilities, as this difference
> is well entrenched  in standard international English (RP), British
> English, American English, Canadian English and Australian English

I have been trying all afternoon, but I still cannot detect any difference

at all in the way I pronounce the syllable preceding 'arms' in
(a) He voted against 'Pygmalion' but for 'Arms and the Man'.
(b) My Thalidomide brother had four arms, but I have only two.
(c) My forearms are skinnier than my brother's.

There is a difference, of course, if the syllable is unstressed, but only
in 
the case of 'for'. As far as I can tell, the stressed syllable has exactly

the same vowel sound as in 'floor' and 'flaw' or 'or' and 'awe'. It could
be 
followed by a glottal stop in (a) and (b), but not (c).

Are my sensibilities less fine than others'?
-- 
Noel