rawk (1987)

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:46 AM -0500 2/25/05, David Bowie wrote:
>
>In a FWIW aside, i have the cot-caught distinction, and 'hog' and 'hawg' are
>both pronounced the same for me. The <og> words are notoriously variable;
>for me there's dog, hog, slog, fog, frog, and log (open-o) versus blog, pog,
>cog, jog, toggle, and noggin (ah).
>

Now *that's* weird.   ;-)

--Larry shm[ae]rry
[not to be confused with "Mary shm[e:]ry" or "merry shm[E]rry",
and wondering if this is discussed in the reduplication literature...]