 The same two regions show a closely related merger, namely the "fell–fail" merger of and before that occurs in some varieties of Southern American English making "fell" and "fail" homophones.In addition to North Carolina and Texas, these mergers are found sporadically in other Southern states and in the Midwest and West.The "full–fool" merger is a conditioned merger of and before , making pairs like "pull"/"pool" and "full"/"fool" homophones.