English Explanatory Dictionary

lot-cloth split

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A phonemic split, in some varieties of English without the cot-caught merger, in which the vowel in words like "cloth" and "off" is pronounced with the same vowel as in "thought", as opposed to the vowel used in "lot".

Word forms

lot-cloth split
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