- don (as in Mafia leader) and dawn (as in sunrise)
- weather and whether
- don [dɑn] - dawn [dɔn]
- weather [wɛðər] - whether [ʰwɛðər].
I really wish the Jeopardy people would stop taking one regional variant as the only legitimate one.
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