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Originally Posted by sharkfood
Sorry, but Greater New York City does not distinguish "cot" and "dawn". "Cot" would be pronounced "caught."
On Long Island, people go buy cawfee at the mawl and eat chawcolate. That is the essence of a NYC accent.
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What you said is totally false. The NYC area as well as most of the Eastern half of the US is cot/caught unmerged.
You're referring to the extremeness to which the "aw," or open-o, vowel is backed, thereby forming a diphthong. It ends up sounding something like "wuaw" as in kwuawfee (coffee).