Date:  Tue, 8 Feb 1994 21:58:51 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET>

Subject: Re: Sluff/Slough



Peter,

    Isn't there a neutralization in some places between /aw/ and /ow/,

merging somewhere in the vicinity of /ew/? To these American ears, though

just impressionistically and not by careful listening, the Queen uses /ew/

where I would use /ow/, e.g. in <know>. If <Slough> and <now> really rhyme,

then <slow> as quoted in the road sign must be a local homonym. No?

        Rudy Troike