hog/hawg

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/7/2010 11:50 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Interesting.  So, Joel, you have a minimal pair between the following?
>
>hog/hawg, n. 'motorcycle' /hOg/ as in "dog"
>hog, n. 'mammal of fam. Suidae' or hog, v. 'bogart' /hag/ as in "frog"

Yes.


>I'm not sufficiently au courant with the former to distinguish the
>pronunciations.

My familiarity is remote.  Must be only TV pronunciations.

Joel

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