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Doug Harris cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET
Mon Dec 31 15:05:42 UTC 2007


I'm in a fog why dog doesn't rhyme with hog.
They're all of a kind, where I come from, and am: NY via KY
(the other) doug



>   One exception to the "og"
>rule--quahog.  Probably because, to me, it's a New England word,
>learned late in life.  I'd pronounce it to rhyme with dog rather than
>hog.  Nothing else though.
>
>Paul Johnston

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