Austracism

[D. Ezra Johnson]

RP pronounces "Austria" with the vowel of "cot", incidentally.

Dan

>From: "Peter A. McGraw" <pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Austracism
>Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 15:40:16 -0800
>
>It's precisely your (and my) differentiation of the two sounds that makes
>this a pun.  If you merged the two vowels, it wouldn't be a pun for
>you--just a new instance of homophony.  Or maybe it would be what might be
>called an "orthographic pun."  (Is there a word for that?  Here we go
>again....)
>
>Anyway, thanks for answering my question.
>
>Peter Mc.
>
>--On Wed, Feb 9, 2000 4:09 PM -0700 David Bowie <db.list at BYU.EDU> wrote:
>
> > so it seems to be a pun on
> > "ostracism".
> >
> > Of course, i don't merge "cot" and "caught", so it's not a perfect pun
>to
> > my ears...
>
>
>
>****************************************************************************
>                                Peter A. McGraw
>                    Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
>                             pmcgraw at linfield.edu

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