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if it was the NYTimes, the latter...
It was and it was.
In Boston odd sounds like how a normal human being would pronounce awed but I'm not sure how awed is pronounced in Boston. It's been too long.
I'd pronounce claws with a voiced sibilant at the end and Claus with an unvoiced one.
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Is "odd" pronounced the same as "awed"?Yup, at least by most Canadians. Also homophones, for many* Canadians, are claws/Claus, tot/taught, Mary/merry/marry, and others like it. I once found a really neat map (of the US I think) showing the geographic distributions of a bunch of those vowel sounds. (Maybe chez the American Dialect Society?) Conversely, stock/stack are two different sounds in Canada but many USns (I haven't figured out the geographic pattern yet) pronounce stock so it sounds like stack to me. Anyway, I think for these riddles (they are so neat!) you have to stretch your pronunciation rules a bit!  BTW, BankrollBets, welcome aBoard! * note that I did not say all here...
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Bono’s group says of his pet sheep: she reminds us of a bunch of fungus/alga symbiotic dual-plants
U2 likens ewe to lichens.
I'm going to get fired if I don't stop...
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"I'd pronounce claws with a voiced sibilant at the end and Claus with an unvoiced one."
Not to begin a protracted off topic discussion, since I know very little of orthoepy (recently learned word which I'm not even sure how to pronounce) but would you say that Claus rhymes with Oz as in Wizard of Oz?
"...normal human being..."
Am I supposed to read between the lines to infer something about your opinion of Bostonians Faldage? All I know about Boston accents I learned from listening to Mayor Quimby (a cartoon being), and watching commercials.
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read between the lines
Clawss...Ahz No rhyme nor reason
I lived in Boston for two years. Notwithstanding that blip in my life (I like Boston; I got tired of the big city), I enjoy making fun of the accent from time to time just because it is so distinctive.
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Bean: stock/stack? never heard that b'fore...
and Fald:
Santa Clawz. definitely a z
formerly known as etaoin...
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stock/stack
OK, how 'bout this. For me, stock rhymes with walk and stack rhymes with black. However, my experience has been that people from certain parts of the US (which ones?) *more or less* rhyme stock with black. I recall seeing something in a Maximum PC magainze about how to pronounce a word (which I already knew) and they spelled the pronunciation with an a where I would have used an o. I can't remember what word it was. I'll look it up when I get home.
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Inspired by etaoin above, though not nearly as good as the original posted clues:
What the tense impaired grocer declared after the legume broths had been properly shelved...
EDIT: answer below
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"stock rhymes with walk " rhymes with "stalk"
Bean is your first name Jack?
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OK, I know this is now thoroughly off-topic, but I found the magazine bit. The word was fogging and they wrote out the phonetic pronunciation as FAH ging. When I say the word there is not even remotely an ah-ish sound to it.
EDIT: I would probably spell it FAW ging.
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