spelling pronunciation--words in -or

Charles Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Fri Mar 20 18:58:51 UTC 2009


My students occasionally evince incredulity/amusement/anguish at my pronunciation of "metaphor" with an unstressed final syllable /-f at r/.

Dictionaries record both pronunciations; I wonder what their distribution is?

--Charlie
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