OT: Bronx

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:49 AM +0000 1/1/08, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>Strange, but if you'd ask me, I'd say I never ever heard the word
>"honk" with the "ah" vowel,

If you've been living in the east, as I infer, you've been living a
sheltered life.

LH

>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).
>
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>>  Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:38:22 -0500
>>  From: laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
>>  Subject: Re: OT: Bronx
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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"?
>>
>>  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").
>>>>
>>>>  What (else?) did the musical comedy lyricists rhyme "Bronx"
>>>>  with? I've forgotten.
>>>>
>>>>  Joel
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