hawk/hock

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 08:54 AM 7/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/15/02 11:08:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>avgilbert at PRODIGY.NET writes:
>
> > I've never come across a hoarse horse.
>
>Of course not.  That would be a horse of a different collar.


Perfect--especially since in my area (SE Ohio) "color" is pronounced like
either "collar" (with /a/) or "caller" (with the almost-/O/ of British 'lot').