Heard on the judges, with apologies to Wilson

[Wilson Gray]

Actually, Herb, I regard this as an _hommage_! :-) I feel quite complimented!

-Wilson

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sorry for stealing your subject line, Wilson, but it fits.  This
> morning a 50ish white male speaker of Northern Midlands and a merger
> of low back vowels consistently used open o in "dollar."  I didn't
> hear other clear instances of open o in his speech, and I haven't
> noticed this combination of vowels before, in spite of living in a
> Northern Midlands, low back merger region for the past 29 years.
>
> Herb
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
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