coffin pronunciation

[James Smith]

Tom,

I followed you up to this point.

> But many newscaster in FL are replacing "awe" with
> "ah".  In fact some say "cloddy" instead of
> "cloudy".

 I can't hear "awe" or "ah" in "cloudy", and no "ah"
in "cloddy"


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