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Assuming it's similar to "folly" vs. "foley".


Not even close.


Care to expand?


Sure: “yaht” and “yot” sound virtually the same (at least in American English), only maybe slightly different in the length of the vowel; “folly” and “foley”, on the other hand, sound very different from one another.


Yes, that is my point. "Yot" is pronounced differently (as in "foley") outside of America in a lot of cases.


Except (just to be clear) no native speaker would ever pronounce 'o' in 'yot' and 'foley' the same way.




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