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North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns (files.catbox.moe)

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Source: https://aschmann.net/AmEng/#Au_Washington_State

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

Looks like the difference is between the rounded and unrounded back open vowels /ɑ/ and /ɒ/. This site has an IPA chart where you can hear the differences. The father-bother merger hasn't happened in my (NE) accent, but I didn't know that pretty much everywhere else merged the two. Interesting that cot-caught merged for NE but not father-bother.