how to pronounce BOUND

From looking the hyper spec, it looks like the writers intended for
BOUND
and BAND to be pronounced the same. Does anyone else find this
strange?
Was the hyperspec writer from Newcastle? (grins no offense to anyone
from newcastle)

http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/Body/fun_fboundp.html#fboundp

Pronunciation:

[,ef'bandpee]

http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/Body/fun_fmakunbound.html#fmakunbound

Pronunciation:

[,ef'makuhn,band] or [,ef'maykuhn,band]

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