"gook" (rhymes with "book")

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:46 PM -0500 3/17/05, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>larry,
>
>You have now heard /guk/ for the last syllable of "gobbledy...".
>Well, you didn't really hear it, but you can imagine my dulcet tones.
>
>It has no connection with the xenoslur, but it may be connected (my
>introspector is broke today) with my guck, which I can pronounce
>either /g^k/ (contamination from 'yuck(y)'?) or /gUk/ (but definitely
>not /guk/.
>
>dInIs

No, I think they're independent.  I have both "guck" /gUk/ and "gook"
/g^k/ for the goopy mess--I'm not sure how I'd be able to tell if the
latter pronunciation is an alternate rendering of "guck" or the
phonetic representation of a distinct lexical item "gook" with the
same meaning, as I've been assuming.  But I have only "gobbledyg/U/k".

L