horse/hoarse

[Peter A. McGraw]

Now I'm confused all over again, unless there was a typo in your message.
I presume you meant to write "...hot (short-a)" --right?

Peter Mc.

--On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 3:51 PM -0400 "Dennis R. Preston"
<preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU> wrote:


> hoarse has the same vowel as coat (long-o)
> horse has the same vowel as caught (open-o)
> parse has the same vowel as hot (short-o)
>



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu