pronouncing "hobo" et al. today

[Arnold Zwicky]

On May 26, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Mark Mandel wrote:

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

>> 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.

it does, it does.  respectable number of google hits for {"homo milk"}.

arnold

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