lot-cloth split

noun

Definitions

  1. A phonemic split, in some varieties of English without the cot-caught merger, in which…

    A phonemic split, in some varieties of English without the cot-caught merger, in which the vowel in words like "cloth" and "off" is pronounced with the same vowel as in "thought", as opposed to the vowel used in "lot".

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lot-cloth split. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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