Do you pronounce the female name Dawn just like "Don", or more like "Dwaaawn"? How about "caught" - like "cot" or "cwaught"? And where are you from?
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Neither.. I pronounce dawn -- 'Dorn' I cant say how I pronounce 'caught' but it is neither of those! =)
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My cousin has a very strong Bostonian accent. Once, while visiting her, she was explaining to someone how her daughter had "PSDS". I was shocked and ignorant about the disease and asked what it was. After the laughter subsided, she told me, in plainer English, her daughter had pierced ears.
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I pronounce "cot" and "caught" the same, which is typical of Canadian English. Americans typically pronounce them differently from each other. I pronounce "Dawn" and "Don" the same as well.
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don cot good aul ireland
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Caught - cot. Dawn - don. I'm from the USA, west coast.
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I had a Sgt. from Boston who made fun of my southern accent. I countered by telling him there was a letter r in the word car.
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Dawn like yawn and caught like cawt. Upstate NY
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I pronounce them differently. For me Dawn is Doon (the O sound is longer than Don) Same with caught, it's a longer sound than cot is. I'm from USA the east coast.
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I pronounce them differently, but I don't know how to write that. I'm a citizen of the world.
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I live in New Yawk so we have our own version of the English language.
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I say dawn like dawn and caught like caught...but I know what you mean about all the different accents :)
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I say it like Don and Like Cot. +5
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I say Dawn like Dorn and caught like cort
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As Her Majesty, we welcome questions relating to our language. While we do not employ the dw- as you suggest, we do draw the -aw out. One may find the -aw in awkward or Aukland. The male name Don finds its -o to be similar to the word stop. That may be heard as st-oh-p. Caught and cot are similar. We believe that language is a living breathing entity. It grows and flourishes whithersoever discussion as to its uses abounds.
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