"Blawg"

[David Bergdahl]

a LIer: 1) O 2) a  3)  a

but orange, foreign, forest vary a & O

-db

On Dec 30, 2007 7:45 PM, David Donnell <David.Donnell at earthlink.net> wrote:

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> Questions for the aforementioned effete eastcoasterners:
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>      1) how do y'all say "Boston"?
>      2) and "Bronx"?
>      3) and (back to <og>) "Throgs Neck Bridge"?
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> Open-o or /a/?
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> (A friend from Loss Angeles once asked me "So what's a Throg,
> anyway?"... I still don't know the answer!)
>
> DD
> Missourian @ NYC
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> >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
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> >-----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"
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> >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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