Re: Surrey vowels

On May 14, 3:42 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 14, 1:40 pm, analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:





On May 14, 10:31 am, Nathan Sanders <nsand...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <0bsl24h9v6m763fcrt3ikq0g6hh7e69...@xxxxxxx>,
 Ruud Harmsen <realemailons...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Can you hear the difference between English <told> and <toad>?

I don't know about BrE, but in the part of the southern US that I'm
from (rural NW Georgia), these are homonyms (both also having the
/o/-fronting found in many southern US dialects).

Nathan

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Nathan Sanders
Linguistics Program
Williams Collegehttp://wso.williams.edu/~nsanders/

Interesting.

How about the last names "Bowden" and 'Bouldin" ?

would they be homonyms in any dialect you are aware of?

How is the latter pronounced?

I am asking because I once had to meet a Mr. Bouldin and he wanted to
make sure I wanted him and not a Mr. Bowden who was also present in
the room.

yoke and yolk rhyme, poke and Polk don't.- Hide quoted text -

"horse" and "hoarse" being homonyms is absolutely surprising to me -
after decades of assuming that I was (correctly) saying them
differently.

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