DETAILS, FICTION AND HACK

Some speakers from Northern England tend not to distinguish the vowel of sq. /ˈskwɛər/ and nurse /ˈnɜːrs/.[n] For those who converse this kind of dialect, dismiss the distinction between the symbols /ɛər/ and /ɜːr/.In rhotic North American English there's no distinction involving the vowels in nurse /ˈnɜːrs/ and letter /ˈlɛtər/. Sho