Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.

Tristan McLeay wrote:

> --- And Rosta <a.rosta@...> wrote:
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>>>And did you mean that pizza itself comes from
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>>America, or that
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>>>British are adopting an American pronunciation of
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>>the word "pizza"
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>>>(which around here is consistently ['pit:s@])?
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>>Pizza itself. I have recently been hearing /'pAst@/
>>from English
>>mouths too, god help us.
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>Pardon? I've always said 'pasta' the same as 'pastor'
>with my /a:/ (also found in 'farm', 'palm', 'father'),
>which I assume is the correct equivalent of your /A/,
>under the assumption that the same lengthening rule
>applied, either through age of borrowing or because
>that made it sound more English at the time of
>borrowing. I guess I'm kindav expecting to hear
>[p_h&st@] from Americans. Or did Australians borrow it
>from Americans? Or did you Brits re-borrow it?
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>

Nope.  Americans say [pa:st@], or somesuch.   We have [p&st@].