Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn"

[Laurence Horn]

>This is my standard pronunciation: they are homonyms.
>
>Barbara

For me too.  Is this part of the same isogloss as "hoarse"/"horse"?
Where's dInIs when we need him?  (These are all homonym pairs for me.)

LH

>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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