"Blawg"
David Bowie
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Sun Dec 30 14:18:17 UTC 2007
From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> How will "dawg"-sayin' folk distinguish "blawg" from "blog" in speech?
> By contex', I reckon.
Actually, my cot-caught-distinguishin' self pronounces blog with an
open-o, probably out of analogy with log, which has an open-o for me.
(Hence my weakly-joked wonderment at why it was spelled blawg, not blog
in my earlier post. I realized right after i sent it that that was a
pretty opaque comment.)
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David Bowie University of Central Florida
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house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
chocolate in the house, there is too much; it must be consumed.
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