"Blawg"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/31/2007 01:06 AM, Paul Johnston wrote:
>I didn't see your posting before posting my own, but we're on the
>same effete page, I guess.  How would you pronounce "Hauppauge", Long
>Island?  That does rhyme with dog for me.

BOTH "au's like "dog"?  For me, only the "aug".

>One exception to the "og"
>rule--quahog.  Probably because, to me, it's a New England word,
>learned late in life.  I'd pronounce it to rhyme with dog rather than
>hog.  Nothing else though.

I pronounce it to rhyme with "hog".  (Although these are not
credentials, I grew up in New York City and went to Boston at
20.)  So for me rhymes with "dog" are still scant -- "Hauppauge",
"blawg", "augh" (as in, I think, Charlie Brown).

Joel

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