Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn"

[Tom Zurinskas]

The word "merger" doesn't get it for me.  To say there is a "card/cord" merger is not clear.  Are both words said as "card" or as "cord" or as a phoneme inbetween the two or a combination of all the above?

The cot/caught merger to me means both words are said as cot.  In rare cases I have heard "on" said as ~aun which is the reverse.

Better said, the caught-to-cot merger.  Then one knows what is going on.  Basically folks are dropping out the "awe" phoneme altogether.  This deserves a name.  Phoneme dropping sounds about right.



Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:45:09 -0500
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> Subject: Re: Eggcorn? "warn"> "worn"
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> Poster: David Bowie
> Subject: Re: Eggcorn? "warn"> "worn"
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> From: Laurence Horn
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>> I think I've mentioned here a while back that
>> John Lawler informed me 40 years ago that in Utah
>> one lays a fort in the fart. I found it hard to
>> believe, but evidently it's true for at least
>> some Utahns.
>
> Most of what i've looked at (my own work and others', published and
> unpublished) on the Utahn card-cord merger that relies on acoustic
> analysis finds that it's a variable merger of {cord} into {card}, not a
> reversal.
>
> Complicating this is that the {cored} class seems to not participate in
> the merger. Looking more intensely into that is next on my agenda,
> starting this summer.
>
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