stOr@ Drive

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:03 AM -0700 7/18/09, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>On Jul 18, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>>At 7/18/2009 10:42 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>>>On Jul 18, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>>
>>>>At 7/18/2009 06:31 AM, Damien Hall wrote:
>>>>>I'm especially sure of
>>>>>this for proper names, like Storrow, which I can't imagine
>>>>>pronouncing
>>>>>[stOr@] in 'citation form'.
>>>>
>>>>But in Boston isn't it stOr@ Drive?
>>>
>>>it certainly wasn't when i lived there.
>>
>>Perhaps not among your upper-crust neighbors, Arnold, but around
>>mine ...  :-)
>
>well, it really is gratuitous for you to assume that my neighbors were
>upper-crust at the time (yes, i saw the smiley).  the neighborhood i
>lived in was a complicated patchwork of class, but a significant
>number of my neighbors were lower middle class (and some working class).
>
>but of course i wasn't recording pronunciations at the time.
>
>arnold
>
And of course for emigrating New Yorkers like me, it was ['staro],
although I quickly learned otherwise (to my ['sOro]).

LH

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