[Ads-l] "gawker" rhymes with "rocker"

[Galen Buttitta]

No, because language changes and a lot of dialects don't have that vowel anyway.

> On Jun 10, 2016, at 21:07, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> On the evening news "gawker" pronounced "gocker" ~gaaker to rhyme with "rocker".Awe-dropping gone mainstream.  Should we not complain?
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> Tom Zurinskas,  Originally SWConn 20 yrs,  college Tenn 3,  work NJ  33,  now FL 12.The need for truespel phonetics - http://justpaste.it/truespelnow 
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