Re: OT: YAEPT: English low vowels (was briefly: Re: Y/N variants (< OT: English a...

Mark J. Reed wrote:

> Right.  Not all Americans have the LOT/THOUGHT merger, not even those who
> have the PALM/LOT merger.  This is why there are so dadgum many lexical sets
> in Wells's list; i'm almost certain that no single dialect distinguishes all
> of them.
There's Americans without the PALM/LOT merger?

--
Tristan.
(And yes, that sentence *is* grammatically correct, even if your English
teacher won't admit it.)

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