re: #281 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Maybe the Brits, being all proper and everything, enunciate the “u” better than us Yanks. But I agree with you. It should be /ʌ/ for both.
Plus, this is wrong (or overgeneralized): “U.S. /ˈbəŋkər/”. There are plenty of r-dropping dialects in the U.S.