new england short o

new england short o
noun
Usage: usually capitalized N&E
: a vowel short in duration, of a quality that varies from \\ō\\-like to \\ȯ\\-like to \\ˈə\\-like, and less and less used in New England in some or all of approximately 50 consonant-final monosyllables and their compounds and derivatives that in other dialects have the vowel of no (as in coat, road, stone, whole, wholly)

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