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From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Son of `often pronounced OFF-en'
Message-ID: <361@voder.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 17:32:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 17 17:32:23 1984
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I am told that `pistol' once rhymed with `whistle'.  And how about
`pestle'?  (I say pessle).
-- 
Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino)