You will hear it very often in American English， but most Chinese students don’t know it.

All the listening materials in the tests are all taped in American or British English. It is helpful to our study, but it also has some drawbacks.

Basketball has always been a distant third in sports rankings in the United States behind baseball and American football.

Then the next day our young man went off and participated in that very American game, baseball, united yet again with others, this time in play.

So as you can see, in American English it is an extremely neutral sound.