saying "ah" for "awe"

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

There are lots of good, accessible essays written by linguists on the companion site for PBS's "Do you speak American?" program which aired a year or so ago.

On the cot/caught merger, you might check out the following, though the tone is too confessional for my tastes:
http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/midwest/


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There is a lot of information available online concering social and regional 
variation in American English, and if you do a bit of search-engine hunting, 
you can find a lot of information about all of these phenomena.

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