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The father-bother merger is a merger of the Early Modern English vowels and that occurs in almost all varieties of North American English (exceptions are accents in northeastern New England, such as the Boston accent, and New York-New Jersey English).[1][2][3] In those accents with the merger father and bother rhyme, and Kahn and con are homophonous as . Unrounding of EME is found also in Norwich, the West Country, the West Midlands and in Hiberno-English, but apparently with no phonemic merger.[2]