Either you don't understand that he means the pheonetic alphabet, or you say money in a way that is foreign to almost any person in the UK as well as the US. Do you say mooney or mohney? If not I think your phoneme almost certainly must be mah.
Hi, sorry about the delay. I don't know what you mean, 'he means the phonetic alphabet'. I say the first syllable to rhyme with 'bun'. That's surely fairly standard (non-US) English. It's mysterious to me that that's not one of your alternatives.
British English has at least two pronunciations of money that I know of, /mʌni/ and /mʊni/
The former is the most common way for Americans to pronounce it, and matches the mouth shape of ah, and the latter, while not common in the US, also matches the ah mouth shape. I really don't know how yesenadam is pronouncing it such that his mouth doesn't take the ah shape.
Ohhh. I'm sorry everyone. Yes, you're right of course. It didn't occur to me until I tried it that the bu- in bun is bahhh. Goes back to drawing board