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From: rdd@usa1.com (Aaron J. Dinkin)
Subject: Re: Chain Shift (was Tendency of Inflections to Disappear)
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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 18:03:01 -0500
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In article <EIJKHOUT.96Aug6121549@jacobi.math.ucla.edu>,
eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu (Victor Eijkhout) wrote:

> In article <32075346.D14@eurocontrol.fr> Peter Hullah
<Peter.Hullah@eurocontrol.fr> writes:
> 
> > > Well, I'm horrified, but then I'm also horrified when a dictionary says
> > > that "paw" and "lore" have the same vowel.
> > 
> > Where I come from "law" and "lore" are exact homophones!
> 
> A while ago on rec.music.country.western there was debate as
> to what exactly that song said:
> "there might be a little dust on the bottle"
> or
> "there might be a little dust on the bible"
> . With a correct (:-) southern pronounciation those
> last words are almost homophonous.

How do they manage that? I'm guessing something like ['ba?l-].

-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom

