coffin pronunciation

[Scot LaFaive]

>My question for those of you who maintain the distinction between /a/ and
open-o: Do you all have /a/ for 'coffin'?

I distinguish between "cot" and "caught" and I say "coffin" with an open-o.

Scot

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Matthew Gordon <gordonmj at missouri.edu>
wrote:

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> I was listening to a podcast featuring 2 thirty-something New Yorkers. One
> of them pronounced 'coffin' with an open-o, and the other ridiculed him,
> saying something about how it's not 'coughin'.
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> My question for those of you who maintain the distinction between /a/ and
> open-o: Do you all have /a/ for 'coffin'? I'm wondering whether this is
> another example of a word that varies in its phonemic assignment.
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