antedating "hobo" 1885

[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, Mono Lake, one of the places from which the Department of Water
& Power draws some of the water for Los Angeles (remember the movie,
Chinatown? BTW, I worked for Power, not Water, so, my conscience is
clear) is called "[mowno] Lake." It's the only exception to 'mono" as
[mano] that I can think of, off the top of my head. And "Mono" is
foreign, the name of a now-extinct Native American people.

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
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On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Randy Alexander
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>> Interesting that the writer feels it necessary to describe the
>> pronunciation of the vowels. I would have taken that for granted.
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> While yes, most of the words in English that follow that pattern have two
> "long" o's, some do not, like color, honor, and for most speakers, mono.
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