Date:  Wed, 11 Oct 1995 16:19:46 -0700

From:  Dan Alford <dalford[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]S1.CSUHAYWARD.EDU>

Subject: Re: ornery



If I remember correctly, I had an edition with that mistake a while back

and when I checked with my students, all those with NEW books (not

labelled as a different version) had a corrected chart and those who had

gotten retreads still had the mistake in their chart.



On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Natalie Maynor wrote:



> Speaking of "or" words, does anybody else find it odd that "bore"

> is given in the Fromkin-Rodman chart of key words to represent "aw"?

> My students couldn't figure out why there were different symbols for

> the vowel in "boat" and the vowel in "bore." I told them to ignore

> "bore" and substitute "paw." (We then discussed briefly the horse/hoarse

> distinction, but I do think a more consistently pronounced key word

> should be given in an introductory textbook.)

>  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)

>