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Synonyms for cot-caught merger

  • noun

Most common

low back merger

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Noun

low back merger

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A phonemic merger in some varieties of English (especially American, Canadian and Scottish English) in which the vowels in words such as hot and doll (/ɒ/) and in words such as law and talk (/ɔː/) are pronounced identically, making the words cot and caught homophones.