Re: SoCal vowels (was Re: sending mail to the list)

SuomenkieliMaa wrote:

> Simply that for me, "soot" would be pronounced like
> "shoot" - nothing like "cook" or "put" etc...
For what it's worth, the only actual chimney sweep I have
ever talked with, a native of upstate New York, had /sVt/.

And the two withe-binders I know have /waiD/, although the
dictionaries say /wIT/ ~ /wID/.

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