abarca/abarka/alpargata

[Rick Mc Callister]

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>According to Chambers also, it rhymes with gas, not with mast, in RP.

	In my English gas & mast rhyme. Why ain't they a-larnin' folks good
English over thar?

 Sorry
>everyone, this is an answer to a question Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen asked me
>nearly 15 years ago. In my variety of English all the -as words rhyme with
>each other (gas, gassed, past, mast, mass etc.),

	As they should :>

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