"Blawg"

[David Donnell]

Questions for the aforementioned effete eastcoasterners:

      1) how do y'all say "Boston"?
      2) and "Bronx"?
      3) and (back to <og>) "Throgs Neck Bridge"?

Open-o or /a/?

(A friend from Loss Angeles once asked me "So what's a Throg,
anyway?"... I still don't know the answer!)

DD
Missourian @ NYC

>Tsk, tsk, Tom. And here I thought someone who preaches greater
>consistency in the sound/spelling correspondence would be offended
>by such variability in the phonemic assignment of <og>. Shouldn't
>you praise those of us who use just one vowel in all <og> words?
>
>Matt Gordon
>Proud "awe" repressor
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Tom Zurinskas
>Sent: Sun 12/30/2007 4:18 PM
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject:      Re: "Blawg"
>
>I agree.  I'd say your ideolect is standard American English for the
>words you've cited.  What is the history of pronunciation of these
>words.
>
>The problem is that some folks are repressing the sound "awe" and
>replacing it with "ah" wherever it exists.  They just do not want to
>say that sound.
>
>Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems"
>at authorhouse.com.
>
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