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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 7 of 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Re: Honkin' big #92948 02/10/03 02:51 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 B Bean OP old hand OP Bean old hand B Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 I think I've mentioned this before but anyway..in "typical" Canadian English the vowels in hock and hawk have merged, that is, they are pronounced the same. So Canadians (on average, and including myself) see the following word pairs as homophones: hock/hawk don/dawn (this can be awkward since Don is a man's name and Dawn is a woman's name) tot/taught cot/caught awful/offal cod/cawed I think this may be the case for some parts of the US - I remember looking at some vowel map at the American Dialect Society - but I can't remember the details anymore. Anyway, hock/hawk sounds perfectly normal to my ears but I can see the source of confusion. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Honkin' big #92949 02/10/03 02:55 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... honk, honker When I was a kid, and through high school (Central New Jersey, NYC area), we always used to say for spitting "honk up a good one" or "what a honker" or "that's a big honker". And "honkey" was a disparagement for white folks. raunchy Another favorite high school expression was "man, that's raunchy!" for something that's smelly or nasty in any repulsive way. "Get that raunchy thing away from me!" bananas It was recently in the news that bananas have a good chance of disappearing within 10 years as they are genetically unable to fend off disease...unless one of our bio-geneticist maestros saves the day and saves our bananas (I love bananas!) he mispelled my name Pfranz, okay? Candian geese Uh, ladies...that's Canada geese. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: hock, hawk and other US regionalisms #92950 02/10/03 03:01 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Boston accent(hi, wow!) For some reason folks with a stong Boston>New England accent (see the kennedys) change any word with a final syllable of "-a" to "-er"...as in Americer, Canader, staminer, etc. I had a German teacher for three years in high school who was from Boston and who spoke English with a heavy Boston accent...talk about trying to decipher that twist of accenting! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Honkin' big #92951 02/10/03 03:04 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Bean, why do Canadians pronounce about "aboot"? (or mebbe you wanna ask why USns pronounce aboot "about"? ) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: hock, hawk and other US regionalisms #92952 02/10/03 03:06 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont this whole tot/taught, cot/caught thang is a giant yart. just to chop some liver. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: hock, hawk and other US regionalisms #92953 02/10/03 03:11 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... just to chop some liver Hawk liver!? ...I'd rather eat ham hocks! 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Where a giant yart is defined as one that will sleep 20 or more, Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: hock, hawk and other US regionalisms #92956 02/10/03 03:19 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 B Bean OP old hand OP Bean old hand B Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 OK, you YARTophobes, the bit about "where in the US have these vowels merged" is still unanswered, and I'm not in the mood to look for it. Instead of making fun of me you could get your Googlers out and get working! I was just pointing out a possibility, and slightly miffed that Jackie insinuated that those of us who don't differentiate between those vowels are pronouncing things improperly. [pout] I say, when a whole group of people pronounces things a particular way, then it is the right way for them! I will never be able to casually make my mouth all pointy the way you need to to pronounce awful, hawk, dawn, etc., with different vowels than the others! 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