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

[Galen Buttitta]

I don't see what the big deal is. Some dialects have this as a distinct sound (in one way or another); others don't. It doesn't make any one way of speaking better or worse, and those who don't have the COT-CAUGHT merger make do just fine.

> On Jun 11, 2016, at 17:18, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> As I recall, some NY city dwellers celebrate the "awe" vowel by adding a ~w glide.So "coffee ~kaufee becomes ~kwaufee.
> Tom Zurinskas,  Originally SWConn 20 yrs,  college Tenn 3,  work NJ  33,  now FL 14.The need for truespel phonetics - http://justpaste.it/truespelnow 
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>> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:06:11 +0000> From: gcohen at MST.EDU
>> Subject: Re: "gawker" rhymes with "rocker"
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>> But millions of New Yorkers have no problem with this.
>> GC. 
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>> Tom Zurinskas June 11, 2016 wrote: 
>> '...My take on the phoneme "awe" ~au is that it's hard to say.  
>> The tongue drops, the jaw drops, and cheeks pinch in on the sides 
>> of the lips the tone is low.  ...'
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