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[Neal Whitman]

You wrote that for many BE speakers, "flesh" and "flush" are homophones. How about "hem" and "hum"?

Neal

On Jun 17, 2012, at 12:57 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

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> "Now I’m the one _humming_ and hawing."
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> New to me. I've know only "hemming...," heretofore, but GB has the -u-
> variant from at least 1829. That takes it out of the realm of
> eggcornage, I reckon.
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