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I'm from Indiana. I think most folks there (including myself) say caught = cot and dawn = don.
by Broken_Hippo 9y ago
I'm from Indiana. I think most folks there (including myself) say caught = cot and dawn = don.
- fnj 9y agoWhat other possible way is there to pronounce it?
- mac01021 9y agoI think in most of the USA, "bot", "lot", "cot", "not", and "father" all share the same vowel, while "bought", "lost", "caught", "nought", and "fought" all share a different vowel. The following wikipedia article discusses the two phonemes and how they are merged in many dialects of english, and contains audio samples of the same guy pronouncing both words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger#North_American_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger#Nort...