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Old 05-18-2010, 01:39 PM
 
Location: Denver
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haha oh yea, the Canadian accent!
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Old 05-18-2010, 02:27 PM
 
Location: Mesa, AZ
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cot/caught, merry/marry/Mary pronounced the same- I actually tried to pronouce them differently and couldn't seem to figure it out, lol. I am a Los Angeles native.

I do tend to pronounce don/dawn the same too, but I can at least distinguish the difference, unlike the other ones.
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Old 05-18-2010, 10:14 PM
 
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I notice lots of people pronounce the T in often. Do you? (I don't)

How about the C in Arctic? Most people do, but I don't ( I say, "ar-tic") Not sure if I was taught that in school, or where that came from. Any one else say it that way? If yes, where are you/your parents from?
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Old 05-18-2010, 10:21 PM
 
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cot/caught, merry/marry/Mary pronounced the same- I actually tried to pronouce them differently and couldn't seem to figure it out, lol. I am a Los Angeles native.

I do tend to pronounce don/dawn the same too, but I can at least distinguish the difference, unlike the other ones.
do you pronounce "ought" like "ot" or "awt"? That really helped me to figure out the difference in caught & cot. It took me awhile to realize it but I found that I do pronounce them slightly different.
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Old 05-19-2010, 01:05 AM
 
Location: Colorado
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haha oh yea, the Canadian accent!

No, definitely not a Canadian accent. LOL
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Old 08-27-2011, 03:48 AM
 
Location: Columbus, OH
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Default Cot vs. Caught

I'm from North Eastern Ohio, with southern roots. Generally speaking, I pronounce cot and caught differently, as I now live in the middle of Columbus, Ohio. But occasionally when I slip into my childhood dialect the two words sound exactly the same. I can actually switch back and forth between three accents.
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Old 08-27-2011, 08:38 AM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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I'm from North Eastern Ohio, with southern roots. Generally speaking, I pronounce cot and caught differently, as I now live in the middle of Columbus, Ohio. But occasionally when I slip into my childhood dialect the two words sound exactly the same. I can actually switch back and forth between three accents.
That's funny how that works. My niece was just visiting me this week in NJ from MA where she now lives. She said something and then laughed and exclaimed, "A week here and I'm getting my Jersey accent back!"

My friend's father was a Brit who moved to the US when he married my friend's mother in his 20's. Every time he went back across the pond to visit his family, he came back with a heavy British accent.

Re the Don and Dawn: I'd once gotten a list of names by phone of people to attend a meeting. I was expecting one of them to be a man named Don, and he turned out to be a woman named Dawn.
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Old 08-27-2011, 08:48 AM
 
Location: Seattle
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I pronounce them the same, Im originally from Massachusetts.
Born/raised in Mass. Slight difference on COT/CAUGHT...significant difference on Merry and Mary. Not much difference at all on Don/Dawn.

With a transient society and the amount of television jammed into the skulls of the new generation--you can almost hear accents diminshing.

Good thread.
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Old 08-27-2011, 11:12 AM
 
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Does anyone pronounce route and root the same?
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Old 08-27-2011, 12:02 PM
 
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Does anyone pronounce route and root the same?
I don't (native Texan). I almost always pronounce it as "rout"...the noteable exception being when I might happen to mention "root" 66 in an historical context! LOL

That is to say, telling someone, when giving directions, to "take this (rout) to get (wherever). Or, in reference to something local and I am in the car with the other person, "ok, take this "rout" at the next cut-off. Interesting question as to how we all do it...
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