-og words

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:29 PM -0400 6/18/02, Mark A Mandel wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Charles Wells wrote:
>
>#I say "dog" with the caught vowel and all other -og words with the cob
>#vowel (not distinguished in my Atlanta-based dialect from the a in father).
>
>Exactly the same for me. My parents were NYC-born, and I grew up
>Westchester and then NYC.
>
>I have picked up an occasional "caught" pronunciation of "frog", which
>as far as I can tell I use only in songs and rhymes where it rhymes with
>"dog" and in what might be broadly called "dialect" in telling jokes and
>stories.
>
Ditto on everything except the frog, which never rhymes with "dog"
for me.  And I suppose nothing else does; funny, I never thought of
"dog" as an "orange" or "silver" word, but I guess it is (for me).

L