lawn-loan

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 4/19/06 1:33:54 PM, pulliam at IIT.EDU writes:


> 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_.
>

Maybe the radio ad was produced in North Carolina, where folks mow the loan a
lot.

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