hoss

[Beverly Flanigan]

And me--open o in both (Minnesota born and raised; no merger in my
generation, but it's now common up there).

At 10:01 PM 8/4/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>>On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 08:01:43PM -0500, Gordon, Matthew J. wrote:
>>
>>>  Could those of you with a phonemic distinction in the low
>>>back vowels confirm that the vowel in 'hoss' (the derivative
>>>of 'horse' made popular by Bonanza and Keith Jackson) is open
>>>o (i.e., the same as 'bought' ) and not the vowel of 'hot'?
>>
>>Works for me; "hoss" rhymes with "sauce" as I say the word,
>>and I'm not a cot/caught merger.
>
>Me too also as well.
>
>Rima