Odd rhyme claim

[Jerome Foster]

For a current example listen to Click and Clack, the Magliozzi brothers on
NPR.
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From: "Tom Zurinskas" <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
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> "Patriot" rhyming with thought" wouldn't work for me from Conn. but for my
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> neighbor from Mass it would.  For her "ot" would be spoken "ought".  The
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> tter "o" often took the "awe" sound.  She would call me ~Taumee (~au as in
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> "awe") and her son as ~Baubee (Bobby).  This is over 40 years ago.
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> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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>> Date: Tue=2C 15 Dec 2009 16:27:28 -0500
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>> The poet John Hollander asserts that New England is "the only region of
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>> nation" (or was in Emerson's time) "in whose dialect _patriot_ rhymes
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>> _thought_."
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>> Really? I'd have guessed that _patriot_ "rhymes" with _thought_ nowhere
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>> Panet Earth. Or is Hollander being facetious at Emerson's expense? Yeah=
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>> that must be it. Sorry.
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>> On the other hand....I'm curious.
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>> JL
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