• ninpnin
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    5 months ago

    Yup. Both of them are pronounced /bɔl/ without the merger and /bɑl/ with it

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      5 months ago

      Huh TIL. Growing up with the merger, I suppose I’ve come to assume that non-merger folks have different pronunciations for any words with a- or o-adjacent spellings.