Timeline for When did the British and the Americans start to pronounce "o" (as in "God") differently?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 25, 2019 at 21:46 | comment | added | Lambie | Not everyone says gawd, in the US. I certainly don't. East Coast, non-Bronx, non-Brooklyn, non-Law Island, non-Manhattan. | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 18:10 | history | undeleted | user66974 | ||
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 19:35 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @tchrist: Growing up, the spelling dawg (at least, when used to indicate that somebody was a yokel) always confused me because I wondered how else you could pronounce it. | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 2:57 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Josh, Peter is right. I might even consider going so far as saying that most Americans have the THOUGHT vowel in dog, whereas in god that's a minority. | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 0:16 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @Josh: I am pretty sure that among people without the cot/caught merger, /dɔg/ is more common, at least on the East Coast. I don't think it used to be. People used to spell it dawg to indicate regional accents. But now that's the most common pronunciation, so they don't do that as often. See Ngram. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 23:24 | comment | added | user66974 | @MaxB - see update | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 23:23 | history | edited | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 23:19 | comment | added | MWB | MW trumps other dictionaries when it comes of AE pronunciation. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 23:09 | comment | added | user66974 | Not sure it is less common: oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/dog_1 | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 22:59 | comment | added | MWB | da:g is possible, but I think it's less common. MW lists both, dȯg first. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 22:25 | comment | added | user66974 | @MaxB - dog - UK /dɒɡ/ US /dɑːɡ/ - dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dog ?... same as god. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 22:23 | comment | added | MWB | words like dog -- not to nitpick, but the most common US pronounciation is dȯg | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 22:20 | comment | added | MWB | during the 15th and 16th centuries, they changed to what we have in general today --- this predates American settlement. I don't see how this answers either question, frankly. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 22:02 | comment | added | Centaurus | clear and to the point. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 21:33 | history | answered | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |