Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1.chuqui 4/7/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!nsc!voder!gino 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 Article-I.D.: voder.361 Posted: Mon Sep 17 17:32:23 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 07:42:02 EDT References: <544@asgb.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 6 [lines are of(t)en eaten] I am told that `pistol' once rhymed with `whistle'. And how about `pestle'? (I say pessle). -- Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino)