Re: no smoRking?

Domomojo@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks for all the replies.

Richard VanHouten wrote:

Probably because smoking is スモーキング, and quite often the オー
phoneme is replacing an OR phoneme.

Interesting. Is there a reason for that? Do you have another example of
such a replacement?

Well, "fork" (and folk) for one. フォーク

World - ウォールド
Lord - ロード cf. ロード・オブ・ザ・リング
cord, chord - コード
The name "Thorpe" - ソープ
source - ソース
sorter - ソーター

I suppose one possible influence might be early non-rhotic
pronunciations being used as guides, and spreading there via analogy.

Josh Reyer

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