The “aw” is the “o” sound in “knob” or in “Bob.”
The “ah” is the “a” sound in “cat” or “fat.”
So it’s “nochos” versus “nachos.”
But do you get them from Badger Fresh (Baja Fresh)
Cite?
Am I being whooshed or is this a regionalism?
“ah” is the sound you make when the dentist asks you to open your mouth, as in “say ahhhhh!” Also, as in “RAH RAH RAH!! GO TEAM!” Or the sound of the vowel in the standard American pronunciation of “bar.”
“Aw” is the sound you make when you see something extremely cute. Like “Awwww…ain’t that sweet.” It is the sound of the vowel in “saw” or “pause.”
I see that your explaining your own spellings. Rendering the short-o sound phonetically as “aw” and the short-a shound phonetically as “ah” is non-standard.
I’d write something more aking to “NOTCH-oes” v “NATCH-oes,” if I’m understanding you correctly.
Yes, I was simply making my own explanations up. pulykamell has it right.
Last time it happened, I Pitted The Fool.
I caused a big stir in my first week of a new job. A co-worker was telling me about how her teenager was under the impression they were going to let him do something or other that they had no intention of allowing. I asked, “Did you disabuse him of that notion?”
She got very quiet and bailed out of my cubicle in a big hurry, leaving me scratching my head.
Later I discovered that word was going 'round the office that I thought she was beating her kid.
You are an evil, evil person. Think of the poor innocent bystanders. 