Surprise

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Mon Feb 16 17:15:03 UTC 2009


At 2/16/2009 11:07 AM, Randy Alexander wrote:
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>1. Does anyone with a rhotic dialect rhoticize the first "r" in
>"surprise" (I don't).

I think I do: hearing myself saying "suhprise", my reaction is "my,
how low-class my speech has become". But I don't have unpremeditated
recordings of myself, and I've been characterized as (likely to be
perceived as) very artificial and stilted.

Joel


>2. Does anyone know of any other words that in your rhotic dialect
>that have an unrhoticized postvocalic "r"?
>
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>Randy Alexander
>Jilin City, China
>My Manchu studies blog:
>http://www.bjshengr.com/manchu
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