rawk (1987)

[sagehen]

 dInIs writes:
>But, I wonder if the notorious variability you mention might not be
>explained by a word frequency/early learning appeal. Every one of
>your (and my) open oh words (hog, frog, dog, log...) is a relatively
>high-frequency and early-learned word; every ah word is a relatively
>low-frequency and later-learned word (jog, cog, blog...). In my case,
>for example, since "smog" is right in the middle (middle frequency,
>learned only a little earlier than some of the ah words), I don't
>like either pronunciation.
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 Yup.  What you said.
A. Murie
(I know it wasn't addressed to me, but it happens to be just what I was
thinking.)