"Blawg"

[Alice Faber]

David Donnell wrote:
> Questions for the aforementioned effete eastcoasterners:
>
>      1) how do y'all say "Boston"?

(open-o)

>      2) and "Bronx"?

/a/
>      3) and (back to <og>) "Throgs Neck Bridge"?

/a/
>
> Open-o or /a/?
>
> (A friend from Loss Angeles once asked me "So what's a Throg,
> anyway?"... I still don't know the answer!)

I have a sneaky suspicion that the correct question here is "So, who was
Throg, anyway?"

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