Fascinating
May. 20th, 2005 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Apparently some English speakers do not prounounce 'cot' and 'caught' the same way. It's a "Northwest thing" - we've stopped using the 'au' vowel sound. At least, that's according to a UW linguist's paper, summarized in ze local rag....