Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn"
Barbara Need
bhneed at GMAIL.COM
Sun Feb 8 20:35:10 UTC 2009
This is my standard pronunciation: they are homonyms.
Barbara
On 8 Feb 2009, at 2:17 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> "The only thing to do is to _worn_ you guys [away] from this [kind] of
> low-end product."
>
> This one probably is dialect-dependent. In my speech, "warn" and
> "worn" don't fall together, though, e.g. "sense," "since," and "cents"
> do.
>
> -Wilson
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