re-ogling

[Dennis R. Preston]

Sue Grafton is from Louisville, and she speaks (or would have spoken,
I ain't seen her for years)  standard English like me and said /ogl/,

dInIs

>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.