The following questions are aimed at native English speakers. Please answer the questions based on how you naturally speak with your own regional dialect. After you have answered, please state where you are originally from.
1) Do you pronounce the words "Mary", "merry", and "marry" the same way?
2) Do "father" and "bother" rhyme? If yes, do you use the "A" or "O" sound?
3) When you say the words "cot" and "caught", do they sound the same?
4) "Pin" and "Pen"?
5) "Poor" and "Pour"?
6) "Wine" and "Whine"?
7) "Serious" and "Sirius"?
8) "Don" and "Dawn"?
9) "Collar" and "Caller"?
10) Do you pronounce "tomorrow" as 'tomAHrrow' or 'tomOHrrow'?
11) When you say the word "news", is it more like 'noos' or 'nyews'?
12) Does "bag" rhyme with "vague"?
13) Do you pronounce the 'L' in "calm", "balm", "palm"?
14) What about the 'L' in "walk", "talk", and "chalk"?
15) Do the words "god", "mom", and "pot" have the same vowel as the word "honest"?
16) Does "your" sound like 'yer'?
2007-07-01
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