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And Rosta wrote:

> To non-North Americans, of course, [Bob's] name rhymes with
> "cab" rather than with "cob", and had it been us who had nicknamed
> you you would have become "Lojbob".

Have you perhaps reversed "cab" and "cob" here?  Bob himself,
being from California, speaks the version of American that unrounds
all low vowels:  "law" is /lA/.

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John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
                        e'osai ko sarji la lojban