i looked up “does NCVS english have the cot-caught merger” (and yes, i know it would’ve been more proper to say “do most dialects of English that exhibit the NCVS also exhibit the cot-caught merger”) and the duckduckgo ai overview said something about North Carolina Vernacular English (NCVS) 😭😭😭
for those of you who don’t know, NCVS means “Northern Cities Vowel Shift”