Mayor Bloomberg's speech

[Joan Houston Hall]

I had assumed that by sending my remarks to the NYT reporter by e-mail, I
could avoid being misquoted.  Sadly, it wasn't true.  I feel compelled to
protest that I did NOT define post-vocalic r as occurring only in
unstressed syllables, nor did I give "Hahvaahd" as an example of that
phenomenon.  Now, that's off my chest!

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