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In article <37uvc3$da3@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
dpm1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (D. P. Meyer) writes:

> I also have [E] in e.g. `bag', where most people (it
> seems) have [ae]

Greetings from Minnesota,

While I swear to never say soda for pop or bubbler for water fountain,
I too have the particular bag pronounciation.

To me beg, bag, and flag all rhyme.  And I never noticed anything of it
until others (non-Midwesterners) pointed it out.

Also, I have always said Star Track instead of Star Trek.

John Askelson
(Originally from SE MN now in MPLS)
