re-ogling

Thu Mar 24 01:15:58 UTC 2005

On Mar 23, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

> ... I lived in California for years and never noticed an
> /agl/ there.  Is that regionalized to the upper Midwest, do we know?
> Is there an isogloss in the house?  I can't remember the last time
> dInIs and I came out on the same side of one, when phonological
> variants were involved...

i'm an /ogl/ person too.  i'd noticed the occasional person, over the
past few years (at least), saying /agl/ ( but took it to be a spelling
pronunciation) or /ugl/ (which i took to be an influence of "google" or
"goo-goo eyes") and didn't make notes of the events.

one never knows.

arnold