Dialect question

Anon1665155225

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The southern dialect.

“augh”

Would you pronounce that as “aw” or “on”?

Example. I went to grade school with a kid that had the last name Draughn. We pronounced “drawn”.
 

Crazy Cotton

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Gulf South dialect (MS, AL, LA)- auw - gonna be a vowel blend

Start shading over towards Appalachia (East TN and NC, North GA) diphthongs start turning into monophthongs and vowels get harder.

Probably would sound more like "Drone"
 

Baddog11

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If they don’t understand what you mean by augh, then you have to add more pronunciation for them and make it clear to you mean “oh”
 

RocketDawg

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The southern dialect.

“augh”

Would you pronounce that as “aw” or “on”?

Example. I went to grade school with a kid that had the last name Draughn. We pronounced “drawn”.

Agree with your pronounciation.

Garfield (the cat) always said "Arghhh" - slightly different spelling and pronunciation. But who knew a cat could talk?
 

greenbean.sixpack

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The southern dialect.

“augh”

Would you pronounce that as “aw” or “on”?

Example. I went to grade school with a kid that had the last name Draughn. We pronounced “drawn”.
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TheBannerM

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Speaking of dialects. I've noticed a certain local podcast host pronounces "-ing" as "ing-kah", especially at the end of a sentence. I don't know where it comes from, but once I noticed it I hear it all the time now, and not just from him.