Originally Posted by MadTomVane

If you've been around other boards like UniLang you've probably seen this done. But since I haven't found one here, here's mine. Surveys like these have been circulating on such boards and I'm contributing, since I am compiling results of some of the pairs and putting them on a website.

This is how it works. I list a bunch of pairs of words, and you indicate if you distinguish them in pronunciation. For most of these that means you indicate if the words rhyme, but for others there are some different instructions.

First tell us where you grew up, or if you're not a native English speaker, where you learned to speak English.

Now for the pairs of words.
don-dawn - If I'm thinking about it I do, but in casual conversation probably not
hill-heel - definite difference
berry-Barry - no difference
copy-coffee (do the o's sound different?) - very very very slight difference
horse-hoarse - slight elongation of the vowel in hoarse
hot-caught - slight elongation of the vowel in caught
horror-explorer - no difference
morning-mourning -no difference
sock-talk - no difference
fairy-ferry - very slight difference
on-dawn - no difference
hurry-furry - no difference
which-witch (are the w and wh different?) - sometimes yes sometimes no
pen-pin - yes, definite difference
loss-sauce - very slight difference
fell-fail - yes, definite difference
mirror-nearer - no difference
bat-bath (do the a's sound different?) - very slight difference
pull-pool - definite difference
dew-do -yes, dew has a glide “djuw”
cheer-chair - yes definite difference
pull-pole - yes definite difference
father-bother - very slight difference
kit-bit - no difference
vein-vain - no difference
look-Luke - definite difference
cord-card - definite difference
father-gather - definite difference
source-sauce - definite difference
bad-lad -no difference
nose-knows - no difference
court-caught - definite difference
Sam-psalm - definite difference
pane-pain - no difference
libel-bible - no difference
look-luck - definite difference
tenor-tenner - no difference, but my dialect doesn’t really use the word “tenner”
hair-her - definite difference
hurt-dirt - no difference
bred-bread - no difference
roof-hoof - yes difference, but I have been teased about this by my friends who say ‘roof’ with a long o. I think this one may originate in my mother’s slight Newfoundland accent.
tide-tied - no difference
can (verb "able to")-can (metal container) - no difference