Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn"

[Neal Whitman]

I haven't read the full article, but there's probably more on this topic in
David Bowie's spring 2008 American Speech article on the 'cord/card merger'
in Utah. (Or for the more scatologically minded, the 'fort/fart' merger.)

Neal

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> And the ones who visit the Saint Louis Zoo in "Farest Pork." My
> high-school Latin teacher, who was from Omaha, used to claim that that
> was the way that we talked. Ridiculous! We said "Farest *Park*."
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> I've noticed that there are speakers who, to my ear, strangely don't
> distinguish between "war" and "wore."  OTOH, I don't distinguish
> between "Worf" and "wharf."
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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>> I'd imagine the warn/worn distinction, for those who have it, would
>> be parallel to things like horse/hoarse--going back to an old /Or/:/
>> o:r/ distinction.  The possibility of a distinction shown in OED is a
>> relic of that--in really old fashioned British Received
>> Pronunciation, you would get /wO:n/ vs. /wO at n/, but most people born
>> after Winston Churchill wouldn't have that.  I'd suspect it survives
>> nicely in the American South--or at least many parts of it.  Wouldn't
>> a pronunciation of warn with /A/ be possible in St. Louis, and a few
>> other Midland areas, incl. the ones where people are "barn in the born"?
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>> Paul Johnston
>> On Feb 9, 2009, at 12:46 AM, Randy Alexander wrote:
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