Back Vowel Phonemes

[Kim & Rima McKinzey]

>At 1:14 PM -0500 9/18/00, Matthew Gordon wrote:
>>
>>In the North, I'd expect to find the following assignments:
>>dog = )
>>lost=)
>>horror=)
>>on=a
>>upon=a
>>water=)
>>wash=)
>>
>Well, for THIS northerner (more specifically, New Yorker), this is
>all as claimed except for "horror", which belongs to the (OR) class
>we've previously discussed
...
For this original New Yorker, dog, lost, water - all ).  The rest -
a.  And dog doesn't rhyme with frog, log, hog - which are also a to
me.

Rima