Western New England English
The English of Western New England in fact shows many sharp differences throughout rather than one uniform accent. In 2001, Charles Boberg, discussing that Western New England English was a likely direct influence on the Inland Northern English of the Great Lakes region, still identified as many as four or five English sub-regional accents within Western New England itself, based on data from the late 1990s:
Phonological history of English low back vowels
While the accents in northeastern New England, such as the Boston accent, also remain unmerged, "lot" remains rounded and merges instead with "cloth" and "thought".