"The camera cannot lie" (continued)

[Bob Haas]

Touché, Andrea!  Ya know, sometimes when I'm bein' real Southrin', I say
"am-a-TOO-er."  Am I real weird, or is this a fairly common southern pronunciation?

"A. Vine" wrote:

> This from the very same folks who pronounce "Beaulieu" as "byoo-lee" and "Ypres"
> as "wipers".  I believe I will retain my colonial pronunciation of "amateur".

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Bob Haas
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
High Point University

                         "Shun the frumious Bandersnatch!"