• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    When I hear an American with the caught/cot merger say “caught”, it sounds way more similar to my (unmerged) “cot” than my “caught”

    • Jojo, Lady of the West
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      6 months ago

      I believe you. I meant more that it “won” conceptually than phonetically. To an American ear it sounds more like “aw” or “ah” than “o”.