"Blawg"

[Dennis Preston]

us open-o /a/ distinguishers have a very uneven assignment of the
phonemes to different words, especially before /g/.  In my case,
which I bet is not very different from David's, my earliest learned o
+ /g/ words are all open-o (hog, frog, log, dog, etc...); my later
learned words (cog, togs, etc...) are either /a/ or variable (e.g.,
smog). I think I would assign /a/ to "blog," although I ain't much
for introspection in such matters.

dInIs

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>>  How will "dawg"-sayin' folk distinguish "blawg" from "blog" in speech?
>>  By contex', I reckon.
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>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.
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>(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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Dennis R. Preston
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Department of English
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