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Is "odd" pronounced the same as "awed"?
Yup, at least by most Canadians. Also homophones, for many* Canadians, are claws/Claus, tot/taught, Mary/merry/marry, and others like it. I once found a really neat map (of the US I think) showing the geographic distributions of a bunch of those vowel sounds. (Maybe chez the American Dialect Society?) Conversely, stock/stack are two different sounds in Canada but many USns (I haven't figured out the geographic pattern yet) pronounce stock so it sounds like stack to me. Anyway, I think for these riddles (they are so neat!) you have to stretch your pronunciation rules a bit!
BTW, BankrollBets, welcome aBoard!
* note that I did not say all here...
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