OT: Bronx

[Tom Zurinskas]

Strange, but if you'd ask me, I'd say I never ever heard the word "honk" with the "ah" vowel, always the "awe" vowel (called open o even though it's twice as often spelled with letter "a" in running text.  Also, the "ah" sound which is foespeld as /a/ (does it too have a nickname) is almost twice as often spelled with letter "o" than "a" in running text (truespel book 4).

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:38:22 -0500
> From: laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
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> 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"?
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> LH
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>>> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:09:19 -0500
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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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