Re: ...not what I mean (fwd)

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Matt Pearson wrote:

> >Obviously they don't distinguish [w] and [hw].
>
> And they must have the same vowel in both words.  I actually have
> different vowels in "what" and "Watt".  "What" rhymes with "nut",
> while "Watt" rhymes with "not".
>
My dialect would pronounce both as "wot"

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