Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 13:47:53 -0400

From: Benjamin Barrett Gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GNN.COM

Subject: Re: waft



Thanks to Peter Patrick. From the Pacific NW, I don't know if I've ever

heard the word pronounced or not, though I imagine I have. Perhaps for

reasons he mentions, if I were to use it, I would rhyme it with raft.



Benjamin Barrett

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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 13:06:22 -0400

From: "Peter L. Patrick" PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.ACC.GEORGETOWN.EDU

snip

On the other hand it could

well be a spelling pronunciation, as literary words often are, in

which case regional trends might not have much to do with it...

Anyway, I do rhyme "waft" with "raft", and it never even

occurred to me it might be pronounced otherwise until your query!



Benjamin Barrett

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http://members.gnn.com/gogaku/translator.htm