Dawgs

[David Bergdahl]

On 10/24/06, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu> wrote:
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> The schwa glide?  Or the U-glide--like [dOUg] ?  I know that's an old
> Southern form.
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Me, an open-o dog person myself, I always thought DAWG spelled [daog]!

places lived
Valley Stream, LI, NY 1940-1968
Syracuse, NY 1958-1962, 1963-1968
Boston, MA 1962-1963
Athens, OH 1968-1975, 1976-1988, 1989-present
Goettingen, Germany 1975-1976
Toulouse, France, 1988

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