OT: Bronx

[Scot LaFaive]

I live in the chilly mid-west where "honk" has the open-o.

>"called open o even though it's twice as often spelled with letter "a" in
running text"

Damn spelling!

>"the "ah" sound which is foespeld as /a/ (does it too have a nickname)"

Are you saying that "open-o" is a "nickname?" I don't think the linguistic
community would call it a nickname. That's like saying "homo sapiens" is a
nickname.

Scot

On Dec 31, 2007 6:49 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> 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).
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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
> >>> 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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