Bobbe:

Wonderful to have a language geek on the forums.

You're right; I'm wrong.

I don't know the IPA phonetic system, so I assumed North American pronunciation of of the example words (using the "C" dialect if I remember from my single phonetics class). So while it is correct that I pronounce the o in Monica in the same way that I pronounce the "aw" in paw and the "au" in "caught", the British version of "paw" is very different from my pronunciation. The pronounciation of "caught" is different too, but it doesn't sound like the same vowel sound as "paw".

So I don't know. Still no "o" symbol in the Wikipedia IPA table, though. Did you mean "ɔ"?

But it seems the Brits pronounce "Monica" much the same way as Canadians: harmonica ... With an "ɒ" sound!

So should Maemo be written:

/ma'ɛ:mɒ/