How do people actually pronounce "Orange"?

There are questions on ELU about the phonemic transcriptions of orange in both British and American English in dictionaries.

However, this being a site for linguists and all that, I thought I would indulge myself in a question about how people pronounce orange, in terms of what sounds they actually make and the qualities of those sounds in 'minutiae'.

What are some narrow transcriptions of the word orange that we might expect in standard Englishes (with a segment by segment explanation)? If you have any interesting narrow transcriptions of non-standard English varieties, also with explanations of the finer features, those would be very welcome too.

Solution 1:

Here are the transcriptions given in J. C. Wells's Longman Pronunciation Dictionary for orange :

• British English, /'ɒrɪndʒ/, (less frequent) /'ɒrəndʒ/
• American English, /'ɔ:rəndʒ/, /'ɔ:rɪndʒ/, /'ɑ:rəndʒ/, /'ɑ:rɪndʒ/

In American English, /ɔ:/ corresponds to the vowel sound in war, /ɑ:/ to the sound that can be found in odd.

/d/ can be omitted.

In AmE, the preference poll conducted by Wells for the pronunciation of orange gives the following results:

• /'ɔ:rəndʒ/ or /'ɔ:rɪndʒ/ 80%
• /'ɑ:rəndʒ/ or /'ɑ:rɪndʒ/ 20%