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Originally Posted by spindles
I dunno what crazy country you are from but Dawn and sean rhyme, but Don is not even in the same ballpark. awn is a long sound, on is a short one.
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They're pronounced exactly the same in the US Midwest and in California.
I don't know what you mean by /awn/ having a long sound. In American English, the
aw morpheme is usually pronounced the same as a short /o/.