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

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > language changes and a lot of dialects don't have that vowel anyway.
>
> Plenty of reason to complain right there, if you ask me!
>

That goes without saying.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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