No more the "awe" sound in USA

[Laurence Horn]

On Feb 1, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:

> It would be interesting to see if people without the cot/caught merger adopt the merger pronunciation for "Seahawks" (and "hawk" in general) as a result of the Superbowl.
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA

They won't get to me.  'Hawks they are and 'Hawks they will remain, win or lose.

But you can't go by me; I'll never even merge my Maries, marries, and merries.

LH

>
> Learn Ainu! https://sites.google.com/site/aynuitak1/videos
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> On Feb 1, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET> wrote:
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>> I was wondering how long it'd be before I read a message here about the Seahocks and awe-dropping.
>>
>> Neal
>>
>>> On Feb 1, 2014, at 1:27 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> Is the "awe" phoneme too far gone to save.
>>> =20
>>> The Super bowl team name is "Seahawks".  How many times do we here "hocks" =
>>> instead of "hawks".
>>> =20
>>> Her name is "Dawn Zimmer" regarding the NJ scandals.  How many times do we =
>>> here "Don" vs "Dawn".
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