lot-cloth split

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What does lot-cloth split mean?

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".

How to pronounce lot-cloth split

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