Re: English compared to other European languages

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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> Brian M. Scott wrote:
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> > >> If you are one of the few speakers who distinguish
> > >> such pairs as "aural" and "oral", "for" and "four",
> > >> "for" and "fore", "horse" and "hoarse", "or" and "oar",
> > >> "or" and "ore", then you use [O] for the first and [o]
> > >> for the second word in each pair; otherwise, you use
> > >> [O] for both.
> >
> > > It's been claimed that that's true for some limited US
> > > areas, but no famous person has ever been adduced as an
> > > example of such a speaker that could be studied.
> >
> > So what?
>
> So I've never heard the supposed difference exemplified.
>

Celebrity Dialectology?

Ross Clark
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