OT: Bronx

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:09 AM +0000 12/31/07, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>I don't think most eastcoasters would rhyme "bronx" with "honks".
>One's an ah-word, the other's an awe-word to me.
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I have no idea which you think is which.  They're both /a/ for me.
Which are you assuming is open-o for "most eastcoasters"?

LH

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>>  Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:09:19 -0500
>>  From: Berson at ATT.NET
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>>  At 12/30/2007 09:03 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>>"Bronx" rhymes with "honks" (or "no thonx").
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>>  What (else?) did the musical comedy lyricists rhyme "Bronx"
>>  with? I've forgotten.
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>>  Joel
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