coffin pronunciation

[Tom Zurinskas]

Thanks Barbara,  I wonder how many years per state.  I've suggested the format below be put in our signatures so our dialect comments can be place related.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Barbara Need
> Subject: Re: coffin pronunciation
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> 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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