coffin pronunciation

[Barbara Need]

coffin and coughin' would rhyme for me, and I make the distinction
between caught and cot.

Barbara
(TN--born, but no linguistic influence, having left at 3mo., OH, MA,
PA, WI, IL, SD, IL)

Barbara Need
UChicago

On 13 Mar 2008, at 13:53, Matthew Gordon wrote:

> I was listening to a podcast featuring 2 thirty-something New
> Yorkers. One
> of them pronounced 'coffin' with an open-o, and the other ridiculed
> him,
> saying something about how it's not 'coughin'.
>
> My question for those of you who maintain the distinction between /
> a/ and
> open-o: Do you all have /a/ for 'coffin'? I'm wondering whether
> this is
> another example of a word that varies in its phonemic assignment.
>
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