re-ogling

[Beverly Flanigan]

I didn't follow the earlier thread, but I've always said [ag at l].  I don't
think I've ever heard [og at l], in fact, in either Minnesota or Ohio--not
that the word is in common use.  First listing in the dictionaries, huh???

At 11:18 PM 3/22/2005, you wrote:
>MW 11 and AHD 3, the ones I have on hand, give /o/ as in toe, go, first,
>followed with /a/ as in mop.  Unfortunately for us sub Mason-Dixoners, no
>/u/as in google is given as an option.  Damn.  More dialect retraining.
>
>Speaking of which, or more accurately, writing of which, did anyone happen
>to see the PBS News Hour piece on dialect retraining in Prestonburg, KY late
>last week?  I betcha they say /ugl/, and it seems that they are going to
>have to learn to do better.
>
>JCS
>
>Laurence Horn writes:
>
>>I don't know if I'd have noticed it before last week, but the reader
>>of my current Audiobook (Sue Grafton's _R is for Richochet_ just
>>observed:
>>
>>"The guy was so busy ogling her, he nearly dropped the car keys"
>>
>>--with "ogling" pronounced [aglIng] as in "goggling".  In fact, now
>>that I think of it, I wonder if "goggle" might not be one of the
>>factors contributing to the "oggle" pronunciation, despite the
>>difference in orthography, the way Barney Google might contribute to
>>the "oogling" variant.
>>
>>And on a different topic, did anyone else who saw this headline in
>>Sunday's N. Y. Times have trouble coming up with the right
>>interpretation first time through?
>>
>>Bomb Kills 3 Iraqi Policemen in Procession
>>
>>
>>Larry
>
>
>
>James C. Stalker
>Department of English
>Michigan State University