rawk (1987)

[Dennis R. Preston]

Jonathon,

She musta moved down to where we talk good (and where
grapheme-phoneme correspondence is a helluva lot better) just to get
away from y'all.

dInIs

>Hog rhymes with Prague. Dog rhymes with...nothing !  Hog and Prague
>have the vowel of "car." Dog has the vowel of "saw" and "law."
>
>In the second grade a substitute teacher tried to convince us that
>"dog" should rhyme with "hog," "frog," etc.  We never saw her again.
>
>JL
>
>"Baker, John" <JMB at STRADLEY.COM> wrote:
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>Jonathan,
>
>It never occurred to me that dog and hog might not rhyme. Which word
>do you rhyme with Prague, and how do you pronounce the other word?
>
>John Baker
>
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Dennis R. Preston
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Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages
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