Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn"

[Wilson Gray]

In Utah, you say? Well, it gladdens my heart to know that English is
finally beginning to be enunciated properly somewhere beyond the
limits of the greater Saint Louis metropolitan area! :-)

-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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-Mark Twain



On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net> wrote:
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> 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.)
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> 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."
>>
>> -Wilson
>> â?"â?"â?"
>> 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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>> -Mark Twain
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>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu>
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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
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