Re: Are/our/hour

James Campbell wrote:
>
> On the subject of are/our/hour:
>
> The angle from Dorset almost-RP-speakers would be:
> (/&/ = schwa)
>                           are      our       hour
>
> In careful speech/        /a:(r)/  /aU&(r)/  /aU&(r)/
> word stressed
>
> In normal conversation    /a:(r)/  /a:(r)/   /aU&(r)/
In Toronto, it seems to be the second one almost entirely. My teachers
use it, I hear it on the radio, on TV, my friends use it, I use it, my
parents use it, my grandparents use it, everybody uses it. I didn't
notice it that much until other people on this list commented how much
they heard it, although I think I brought the subject up.

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Robert