pronouncing "hobo" et al. today

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/26/2009 03:04 PM, Randy Alexander wrote:
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>On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> > 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"}.
>
>And even a few for "hetero milk".  And some for "homogeneous milk"!
>
>(But of course about a hundred times more for "homogenized milk".)
>
>;)

But how is it (homo milk) pronounced?  :-)  And are these the third
and fourth varieties of milk -- homo, hetero, skim, and "real"?

Joel

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