Do YOU pronounce Sigil with a hard or soft G?

[ImNotTrevor]

Same. And I definitely do not have a Midwest accent.

Speaking of 'a' words, there's a word with a different 'a'. Accent does not start with the same 'a' as apple or apparatus.

*in your accent

Which, please, share how you pronounce those words. Smart phones can use Vocaroo just fine.

Use Vocaroo to say each of these:

Scuba
Apple
Opera
Accent
Apparatus
Octopus
Application
Honest
Cat
Calm


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And that's actually a good question:
Do "Cat" and "Cot" sound the same?

Because the "ah" sound you're referencing exists in the words cot, bottle, launch, top, pop, drop, slop, honest, slaw, raw, and the surname of one Tim McGraw.

Hell, do these on Vocaroo, too.