Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn"

[Tom Zurinskas]

There are people that have dropped the sound "awe" ~au completely out of their foenubet (set of sounds in a language - my word).  And if the trend continues, we're gonna lose that sound altogether in USA English.  This trend must stop.




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> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:30:17 -0600
> From: slafaive at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: Eggcorn? "warn"> "worn"
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>>Basically folks are dropping out the "awe" phoneme altogether. This
> deserves a name. Phoneme dropping sounds about right.
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> I really wish you would listen to the people on this list who are more
> trained in the field than you. THERE IS NO AWE DROPPING. The vowel sounds
> are MERGING. Hence, the LOW-BACK MERGER.
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> On 2/11/09, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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>>> 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.
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>>> 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 unpublished) on the Utahn card-cord merger that relies on acoustic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.
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>>> 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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