re-ogling

[Paul Johnston]

Definitely /ogl/ in North Central/Northwestern New Jersey and adjacent
parts of NY State.
Maybe /agl/ is an Upper Midwest thing.

Paul Johnston
On Wednesday, March 23, 2005, at 07:32  PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: re-ogling
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>> Sue Grafton is from Louisville, and she speaks (or would have spoken,
>> I ain't seen her for years)  standard English like me and said /ogl/,
>>
>> dInIs
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> Yeah, but her detective/narrator, Kinsey Millhone, is from Santa
> Barbara...er, Santa Teresa, or technically from nearby Lompoc, if
> memory serves.  And who knows where the woman who reads the audio
> book is from (but it doesn't sound like Kentucky to me).  On the
> other hand, I lived in California for years and never noticed an
> /agl/ there.  Is that regionalized to the upper Midwest, do we know?
> Is there an isogloss in the house?  I can't remember the last time
> dInIs and I came out on the same side of one, when phonological
> variants were involved...
>
> Larry
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>>
>>> Laurence Horn writes:
>>>
>>>> I don't know if I'd have noticed it before last week, but the reader
>>>> of my current Audiobook (Sue Grafton's _R is for Richochet_ just
>>>> observed:
>>>>
>>>> "The guy was so busy ogling her, he nearly dropped the car keys"
>>>>
>>>> --with "ogling" pronounced [aglIng] as in "goggling".  In fact, now
>>>> that I think of it, I wonder if "goggle" might not be one of the
>>>> factors contributing to the "oggle" pronunciation, despite the
>>>> difference in orthography, the way Barney Google might contribute to
>> the "oogling" variant.
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