Re: OT: whore/poor (Was: Re: OT: My wedding pictures)

Tim May scripsit:

> It rhymes in my version of RP, too - [hO:] vs [pO:], I think.  (One
> point where I diverge from the designations in my dictionary, which
> gives "poor" as the example for /U@/).
A recent sound change in RP (say, over the last 50 years or so).

> It scans rather nicely, as well.
Indeed.

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