"Blawg"

[Wilson Gray]

How will "dawg"-sayin' folk distinguish "blawg" from "blog" in speech?
By contex', I reckon.

-Wilson

On Dec 28, 2007 10:13 PM, Shapiro, Fred <Fred.Shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> A _blawg_ is a law-related blog.  It's probably not in any dictionary, but has 811,000 Google hits.  Nominee for WOTY?
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