Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn"

[Wilson Gray]

As one who has the merger - speaking loosely, of course, since, for
me, there was no merger, it being the case that "card" and "cord" have
*always* both been pronounced as "card," wherein "a" is the back, low,
unround vowel sometimes represented as alpha; I wasn't consciously
aware of any other pronunciation till I was well grown - I don't see
how "cored" could present a problem, since it's /kor/+/d/. When my
mother /kor/+/d/ apples to make baked apples, she didn't /kard/+/d/
them. Or maybe your point escapes me.

-Wilson
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:45 AM, David Bowie <db.list at pmpkn.net> wrote:
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> From:    Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>> I think I've mentioned here a while back that
>> John Lawler informed me 40 years ago that in Utah
>> one lays a fort in the fart.  I found it hard to
>> believe, but evidently it's true for at least
>> some Utahns.
>
> Most of what i've looked at (my own work and others', published and
> unpublished) on the Utahn card-cord merger that relies on acoustic
> analysis finds that it's a variable merger of {cord} into {card}, not a
> reversal.
>
> Complicating this is that the {cored} class seems to not participate in
> the merger. Looking more intensely into that is next on my agenda,
> starting this summer.
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