lawn-loan

Wed Apr 19 17:33:28 UTC 2006

I heard a produced radio ad today in Chicago in which the
pronunciation of _lawn_ was very close to the standard /o/ heard in
_loan_.

Has anyone else heard this?

Greg
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Gregory J. Pulliam
Lewis Department of Humanities
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Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL   60616

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