Donkey/monkey/honky

[Dodi Schultz]

Patty Davies on the West Coast writes:

  >> This is interesting, I have *never* heard donkey rhyme with monkey!

And Larry Horn says,

  >> Meanwhile, back on the East Coast, I rhyme them with impunity.  But
  >> "honky" rhymes with neither...

Also on the East Coast, I agree with Larry.

But the preferred (though not the only) dictionary pronunciation (AmHer,
RH) of "donkey" *does* rhyme it with "honky"--and not with "monkey."

--Dodi Schultz