Re: CHAT: iron worlds (CHAT: Being both theologically correct etc

On Mon, 14 May 2001, David Peterson wrote:

> ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:
>
> > Even the western dialects that use retroflex vowels, as Americans normally
> > do, don't seem to have noticeably dissyllabic pronunciation, being just
> > /w3_rldz/ or /wV_rldz/; and those dialects (AngloWelsh and some Scots
>
>      I only have disyllabic.  And whenever I do hear it pronounced as one
> syllable (e.g., in songs), the pronunciation tends to the standard
> pronunciation of "word".
Huh.  I feel like my pronunciation is fractal between one and two
syllables, leaning slightly toward the latter.

<ducking>

YHL