Choral vs. coral

[Beverly Flanigan]

This would make sense for Keillor, who likes to tout his "English major"
schtik.  (I know--we've argued over the spelling of that last word before;
I have no idea what the most accepted version is!)

At 02:14 PM 6/20/2006, you wrote:
>It isn't in modern Michigan, N Illinois or New Jersey either, but
>according to the older dialect surveys, it WAS a general Northern
>feature and one of the main North/Midland differences.  Like "dutch
>cheese" for "cottage cheese", it seems to have gone the way of the
>"whippletree" and disappeared in most dialects.  Maybe Keillor's
>being conservative.  There's no documentation that I know of saying
>when NORTH and FORCE merge in the North, but it's got to be a
>difference in most areas between people born in the 1860's and the
>turn of the twentieth century.
>
>Paul Johnston
>On Jun 20, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
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>>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
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>>At 09:15 AM 6/20/2006, you wrote:
>>>Yes, that is a possibility, Mark. Thank you for your suggestion.
>>>
>>>-Wilson
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>>>On 6/20/06, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
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>>>>Wilson inquires:
>>>>
>>>>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?
>>>>
>>>>m a m
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