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@jasonmolenda @fastfinge here the distinction, for me, isn’t so much the A sound, but the prosody. English naturally stresses the second to last syllable, as in “mommy,” but Japanese tends towards short syllables, right? So you’d have to pronounce “mommy” in English in almost a staccato to make it sound the same.

Of course then we’re getting into different accents, so that’s a whole other can of beans.