significant "Gooks"

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> was it pronounced /guk/ or /gUk/?


As significant as whether a speaker says [ruf] or [rUf]?


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