Short-a in Cincinnati: A Change in Progress
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1. One of the oldest Dayton speakers, MY-F75, in fact grewup inWest Elkton, a small town southwest of Dayton, but has spent most of her adult life in Dayton. She may represent a rural southwestern Ohio pattern rather than an urban Dayton pattern.
2. It should be noted that Johnstownis close enough to Pittsburgh that its merger of cot and caught could originate in western Pennsylvania rather than in theWest.
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