saying "ah" for "awe"

[Tom Zurinskas]

I'm hearing the phoneme "ah" substituted for "awe" all the time now.  What's
going on.  Is it a fad or what?  Not good.  It gets away from phonic form
consistency and creates words that sound alike but are spelled differently,
mean different things, and initially were meant to be spoken differently,
like "cot" and "caught", "tock" and "talk".

How is it in your neck of the woods?

Tom Z


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