Choral vs. coral

[Beverly Flanigan]

Cf. the old "hoarse/horse" split--still in New England?  Not generally
elsewhere, as far as I know; but Garrison Keillor has it, for some strange
reason (Minnesota-born and bred, though I've never heard other fellow
Minnesotans have it).

Beverly

At 09:15 AM 6/20/2006, you wrote:
>Yes, that is a possibility, Mark. Thank you for your suggestion.
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>-Wilson
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>On 6/20/06, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
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>>Wilson inquires:
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>>Wasn't there once a time when these two words differed in
>>pronunciation as well as in spelling, to wit: choral [kor at l] as in
>>singing vs. [kOr at l] as in reef? Nowadays, they both appear to be
>>pronounced [kor at l].
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>><<<
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>>I'm sure this is a regional difference. My dialect doesn't distinguish /or/
>>from /Or/. Have you moved from a distinguishing region to a merging one?
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>>m a m
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