'kimono' pronun & use (was: "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984))

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:33 AM -0400 6/21/05, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
>Victoria writes:
>    >>>>>
>Well, M-W's 11th Collegiate and New Oxford American have a "long-o"
>final syllable for the first pronun listed, with the schwa pron as the
>single alternate; American Heritage 4th and Webster's New World 4th
>list the schwa pron first, with the long o as an alternate pron of
>almost equal currency
>  <<<<<
>
>I have only ever used the "long-o" final syllable, but then, I have never
>used the word to mean anything but the Japanese garment.
>
ditto, on both conjuncts

Larry