Re: Fruitcakes was Re: Kentum/satem
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 3, 2002, 14:58 |
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=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:
> But pronouncing |z| like [s], that's a typical city thing (Amsterdam, Rotterdam,
> The Hague).
BTW, is it true that natives of Amsterdam pronounce the "a"s in the
city's name as [Q]? That is what I interpreted my Dutch friend
(non-linguist type) to be saying.
In the U.S. the usual pronunciation of "Chicago" has [A], but that
pron. is stigmatized in and around Chicago itself, where [O] ~ [Q]
is the prestige form. Similarly, "Louisiana" is /luizi&n@/ ~
/lwizi&n@/ to most Americans, but anglophone natives say /luzi&n@/.
(Apologies to francophones.) Then there is the fact, abhorrent to
all Illinoians, that some people outside the state say it with [-z]!
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han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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