Date:  Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:37:43 -0400

From:  "E. Wayles Browne" <ewb2[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CORNELL.EDU>

Subject: Re: AWFUL OFFAL



>I was browsing a book for reading teachers the other day and it

>contained a list of homophones. Among them was the set of words

>"awful" and "offal."

They're homophonous for me--a speaker from the Boston area. They

have a low back rounded vowel.



Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics

Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Morrill Hall

Cornell University

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