 Cajun English is an American English dialect spoken in Southern Louisiana and Eastern Texas. Due to the influence of Cajun settlers it shares a variety of different phonological and lixical features with a French language. In terms of phonology word final consonants or consonant clusters are commonly omitted. This can be seen in words such as food which is pronounced foo, hand which becomes hair and rent rare. In addition to that words are generally stressed on the second or last syllable. Both of these features are similar to French. Additionally the voice and voices dental fricatives do not exist in Cajun English. Instead they are replaced by voice and voices alveolar plosives. Them for instance is pronounced dem. Furthermore the voices plosives are not aspirated. There are also some minor distinctions in the pronunciation of vowels in Cajun English. The most apparent and salient one is monophthongization of the typical gliding diphthongs. See for instance the word boat where the diphthong o is monophthongized to o as in boat. Cajun English speakers typically use tense vowels in place of lax vowels resulting in some words becoming homophones. Examples are hill and heel that are both pronounced hill. Cajun English is distinguished by its inclusion of many loan words and phrases taken from French.