Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 14:24:31 -0500

From: "Peter L. Patrick" PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.BITNET

Subject: Re: AWFUL OFFAL



I'm not a merged speaker for Ah/Oh, but I have the Oh vowel in all the

"off-" words listed last week-- except (sports) "offense" where I can

get both easily. (I'm NY-born, Jamaica-raised, N. Georgia high-school and

college.) I wasn't aware that this was a contradiction-- though I

never thought about it. Is it?

How Oh-ften has anyone actually heard the word "offal" sopken

in everyday speech? (Me, never-- mine is a reading pronunciation.)

--plp