Re: þe getisbyrg adres

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 04:20:51PM -0400, Steg Belsky wrote:
> Please don't!
>
> It doesn't look like an American dialect, and it's confusing me! :P
> |mezýr|, seemingly /mEzjur\/, for 'measure' /mEZ@r\/?
> And |ný| /nju/ for 'new'?  I can barely *pronounce* that, let alone use
> it in everyday speech! ;)
Really?  Hunh.  Not too many years ago maintaining the [j] in such words
was considered a mark of erudition.  I especially recall that saying
[tuzd*] instead of [tjuzd*] for the weekday (the * could be either [ej]
or [i] and isn't the part in question) marked one as an uneducated
philistine.  I know that is no longer the case, but has it become so
rare that some folks can't even pronounce the glide?  Fascinating.

-Marcos

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