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Re: Californian vowels [was Re: Liking German]

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 2, 2001, 18:33
From: "David Peterson" <DigitalScream@...>
> This, I think, is a lot more widespread than you might think.
("Youse"
> is not. I've only heard it before the word "guys" in such phrases as
"Youse
> guys wanna play stickball?" --The Simpsons.) People all over California
use
> it, I think, regularly. Maybe not older folks... However, to distinguish > ourselves from the South, we (or, at least, I myself) often say [juwAL]
(or,
> to be correct, [juwA5] ;), or [juwVL] rather than [jAL]. Rather than
eliding
> the first vowel, we insert a glide in between the two--which is, of
course,
> the more refined and tasteful way to handle it. ;)
Or, you could just transfer the rounding back, and have [jQl] (which is what I think I have yon) *Muke!