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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Oh yeah, maybe. I don't really know how you'd measure that.