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This is the key here on BTN...
AH pot, con
AW bought, sawn
Where I live, each of these vowel sound examples are identical, and each are also identical to Dawn, lawn, fawn and the beginning "en" in "entourage" and the "Dan" of Dante.
The name Dan itself rhymes with can, pan, man, etc.
AH pot, con
AW bought, sawn
Where I live, each of these vowel sound examples are identical, and each are also identical to Dawn, lawn, fawn and the beginning "en" in "entourage" and the "Dan" of Dante.
The name Dan itself rhymes with can, pan, man, etc.
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It's called the cot-caught merger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_low_back_vowels#Cot.E2.80.93caught_merger
They sound identical to me, too, which makes sense since I'm from the western US.
They sound identical to me, too, which makes sense since I'm from the western US.
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Interesting...
...thanks for that. We don't have the father-brother merger but we do have a fairly recent trend among young people to use "bra" rather than "bro" as short for brother.
...thanks for that. We don't have the father-brother merger but we do have a fairly recent trend among young people to use "bra" rather than "bro" as short for brother.
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Exactly. It depends on where you live. I spent a portion of my life in north eastern US and that explains why I think they sound so different. Some people just crazy uppity over it.
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