Surprise

[Dan Goodman]

Arnold Zwicky wrote:
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> On Feb 16, 2009, at 8:07 AM, Randy Alexander wrote:
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>> 1. Does anyone with a rhotic dialect rhoticize the first "r" in
>> "surprise" (I don't).
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> i don't either, but there are some who do -- and some who disparage
> the "dropping" of the first r in "surprise" as gross mispronunciation.
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>> 2. Does anyone know of any other words that in your rhotic dialect
>> that have an unrhoticized postvocalic "r"?
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> there's an inventory of these in a paper by Nancy Hall, available here:
>    http://www.csulb.edu/~nhall2/

For me:  cartridge (which Nancy Hall lists)
Partridge

I say "bobwire" informally; speaking more formally,  I pronounce the r
in "barbed wire."

Grew up in the 1950s in Ulster County, NY.

In Minneapolis, I often see "formerly" written as "formally."

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