[Ads-l] NYTimesOnline: "oggle"

Benjamin Barrett mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 3 19:15:33 UTC 2016


I had a friend laugh at me when I pronounced it like “ooh.” It may have been the one and only time I attempted to pronounce the word.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

> On 2 Jul 2016, at 22:40, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Spelling follows pronunciation. I haven't yet seen "oogle," but, no doubt,
> I shall.
> 
> As chance would have it, I've never had occasion, myself, to speak _ogle_
> aloud.
> -- 
> -Wilson

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