Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:00:50 -0800

From: Arnold Zwicky zwicky[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CSLI.STANFORD.EDU

Subject: Re: AWFUL OFFAL



they will also be homophonous for the many millions of

american speakers (including most of my undergraduate

students at ohio state and most young people out here

on the left coast) who have [a] in DAWN/DON, HAWK/HOCK,

SHAW/SHAH, etc.



arnold



(whose DARE is in ohio, but who thinks that the pronunciation

guide in volume 1 describes this merger in some detail)