ah/ awe

[Jonathan Lighter]

Tom Z, don't let the jocular tone of my reply fool you into thinking I don't endorse Prof. Butters'  more serious approach. What he says is absolutely correct, except that "knot" and "not," of course, used to be pronounced _differently_.

  The same is true of "knight" and "night."

  JL


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