How do you say the word 'fog'?

It should rhyme with "dog". Bear in mind that "dog" and "fog" are pronounced differently in different variants of English, but (as far as I'm aware), regardless of the variant, they should rhyme with each other.
 
I'd say that speaker has a mid-western AmE accent. From upstate New York, and westward all the way to Chicago, people pronounce fog as fahg.
 
I'd say that speaker has a mid-western AmE accent. From upstate New York, and westward all the way to Chicago, people pronounce fog as fahg.
Presumably, then, they also pronounce "dog" as "dahg". That's what I was trying to get at when I said that regardless of the variant being used, the two words should rhyme with each other (even if that means they don't rhyme with another variant).
 

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