Yeah, but can you use them all in a sentence? 
It was at a Zoology conference in February that I first got to know her mischevious nuclear clitoris.
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Well, in NJ fawg and dawg rhyme. I actually never notice my “accent” until I visit my sister in “Bawston,” Massachusetts. Up there, they think I tawk funny. :rolleyes:
Dire Wolf, you moved from New York to Alabama? Brave soul…
Hah, that reminds me. The subtitles in the Japanese movie The Seven Samurai used “sheeyit!” throughout the movie.
On Long Island it’s : dawg , fog , hog.
Oh , and fuckin, (no “G”).
You mean Don and Dawn are pronounced differently? What the hell kind of sense does that make? Bear in mind, this is coming from what the map would define as an Eastern New Englander. That’s what the vocalization part says too. So… am I weird then?
I suffer from a serious case of Mine Eyes Glaze Over when I see the phonetic alphabet, so let’s see if I can just describe the difference between “Dawn” and “Don.” With “Don,” my lower jaw goes straight down, no rounding of the lips. With “Dawn,” the jaw goes down and slightly forward, and I do round my lips.
Don-Dawn Differentiators, does this sound right to you? 
My wife’
s name is Dawn, and in the near-decade we’ve been together, I’ve heard only a single person say it “Don”. It was annoying. On the other hand, we’re from the Philly area, and we speak rightly, so that person was just as weird as Grelby.
Born and raised: Philly, PA.
Fog and Hog,…and dawg stands alone.
Now, what about “water”. Where I’m from its’ wooder.
The northeast part of the country does not have a particular dialect or accent, it has many. You have the Philly area/SW PA/South Jersey. You have the trashier inner New Yawk accent, the similar and milder Nort’ Joisy accent, the god-awful Bastin accent, and the Baltimore accent that penetrates the spine, among others.
Hey Gorgy! How’s the wife and the baby and the back?
For those of you not from the little corner of the US that pronounces everthing correctly: Don does not rhyme with Dawn. Pen and pin are not pronounced the same. Mary, merry and marry are not pronounced the same.
Get a grip, people!
Yo. Wife is fine, baby is en route, back is killing me after the surgery.
There is a marked difference in speach (speaking for myself strictly) whether I’m speaking with friends in a drunken orgy or at work, etc. I usually enunciate very well to begin with, but when you’re just trying to get the words out, things happen.
Water is not wooder! Or actually wuder (with umlauts over the yoo). It often comes out wadder when spocken fastly.
FOG-DOG-HOG-LOG-POG-NOG-WOG-JOG-COG-BOG
Behold!! The Wall of Og!!! There is no variance!!! Alls Og that ends Og!!! There can be only Og!!! Sticks and stones may break my bones but Og will never hurt me!!! I’ve got Og under my skin!!! Todays episode was brought to you by the letter Og!!!
Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
>:O 
:O> 
OG :IAMOGTHEONLYOGTHELASTBESTHOPEFORPEACEINTHEUNIVERSEBETWEENPEOPLEWHOTALKFUNNY.
I shall retire to now to my estate under blue light special.
And how does that wideness thing happen?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Iffen you don’t maken no space, ya don’t getten no space. The wall of OG was too long.
Drats!!! Thanks, but I really needed to let that out. Or oot if you’re a cannuck.
But hey, while we’re on the subject (that’s what the thread is about, see?) how about some other words …
What aboot creek and roof and route?
Each of them have two pronounciations, and one invariably bothers people who say it the other way. I can’t say I know of actual regional reasons behind this, either.
So what’s the secret behind crick, ruff and rowt?
I walked away from 9th grade English retaining only one thing I can recall. “Correctness can rest upon usage only for the simple reason there is nothing else for it to rest upon and all usage is relative” Leonard Bloomfield - 1933
Does there remain a General Question here?
Ouch! What I’m trying to figure out now is, is the way I pronounce Dawn/Don the way you pronounce Dawn, or the way you pronounce Don?
That work for a question?
This is a funny site about how they talk in Maryland.
Oh, Plattsburg State? I lived in that area for several years and they talk kind of funny there. The oddest thing they say is “element - erry school”.
Downstate, Upstate (Albany and North Country area) New York, Maine and Rhode Island residents all rhyme fog with hog, but not dog, as far as I’ve noticed.