Re: CHAT: Vowel shift - angry-beaverisms

"But how do you pronounce "wood" then?  My lips definitely poosh out a
little bit when I say "could," but if I talk like my sister's best friend
in California, I'm essentially saying "kid."  Actually, one register up
from "kud."

No, my lips stay lax. I don't use my lips to change the sound; that is,
while my lips purse to say the /k/, they relax back into 'zero' position
for the 'eu' part. My lips widen for the i of kid, and in fact the d is
more of an arrested flap or a retroflex stop than a t or a d.

"Well, our dauntless radio announcer pronounces "host" the same way.
/hay-ost/.  So I doubt if it's an angry bjaverism.  Besides, "coast" and
"host" are not spelled with "e"s in them, so I doubt if he's marking the
importance of a word by emphasizing its spelling."

Good point. But maybe he's just warping the word specially? Or is it a
regular sound change in some strange little accent?

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