pronouncing "hobo" et al. today

[Mark Mandel]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> At 5/26/2009 12:10 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >At 11:37 PM -0400 5/25/09, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
> > >Laurence Horn wrote:
> > >>Does "boyo" rhyme with "yoyo"?
> >
> > >Hmm...For me, that's not <CoCo> but <C [diphthong]o>
> >
> >Sorry; I've been using angle brackets for written forms. <CoCo> means
> >a word written as any consonant letter + "o" + a consonant letter +
> >"o", and I'm looking from the perspective of a reader of the cite.
> >
> >So far in this thread we've mentioned the following <CoCo> words. (I
> >haven't seen Randy's spreadsheet yet.) All have final /Ow/.
>
> Where does "homogeneous" fit?  I think there are multiple (two?)
> pronunciations for both vowels.
>
>
Unless it has a clipped form as "homo", it's not part of the subject at all.


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