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The following is the pronunciation standard I aspire to; it can be described as "standardized modern Philadelphian", or "slightly General American-ized Philly".
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Additional tense-A words
- calf, chaff, giraffe, graph, half, laugh, photograph, staff, telegraph
- calve, halve
- aft, after, craft, daft, draft, graft, haft, laughter, raft, rafter, shaft
- bath, lath, path
- ass, brass, class, glass, grass, pass
- ask, bask, basket, cask, casket, flask, mask, rascal, task
- clasp, gasp, grasp, hasp, rasp
- aghast, avast, blast, cast, caste, contrast, fast, last, mast, past, pastime, vast
- bastard, caster, castor, dastard(ly), disaster, ghastly, master, nasty, pasteurize, pastime, pastor, pastoral, pasture, plaster
- castle, fasten, raspberry
- bad, glad, mad
CLOTH words
- cough, doff, off, quaff, scoff, toff, trough, often
- croft, loft, oft, soft, toft
- coffer, offer, proffer
- office, coffee, toffee
- across, boss, cross, doss, dross, emboss, floss, fosse, gloss, hoss, lacrosse, loss, moss, Ross, toss
- Boston, foster, cost, frost, lost
- broth, cloth, froth, moth, sloth, wroth
- along, belong, long, oblong, song, strong, thong, throng, tong, wrong
- dog
- on, onward(s), onto, upon, thereon, whereon, hereon
Miscellaneous
can't is sometimes pronounced /kɑnt/ (to help distinguish it from can).