On the other hand, the traditional Eastern New England accents (famously those of Rhode Island and Boston]), the words are pronounced with , but is a free vowel because of the cot–caught merger. In that regard, it is the same as Canadian , rather than Received Pronunciation . Most of the rest of the United States (marked "General American" in the table), however, has a distinctive mixed system. Most words are pronounced as in Canada, the four (sometimes five) words in the left-hand column are typically pronounced with , and the East Coast regions are apparently slowly moving toward that system.