"Authentic pronunciation"

[Alison Murie]

On Oct 3, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

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> At 10/3/2010 01:20 PM, Paul Johnston wrote:
>> Wasn't a study done that said that the dialects with the least that
>> was localized to them and the most shared with others (which would
>> make them appear "neutral" were actually Northern Iowa for
>> vocabulary and Southern Iowa for pronunciation.
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> This is probably what I faintly remembered -- a bit south of
> Minnesota, though.
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> Joel
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While hardly a scientific sample, the several native Minnesotans I
have known  pronounced "aunt" as "awnt" (more aw than ah).  Being an
"ant" speaker myself, I don't think of "ahnt" or "awnt" as standard
American dialect.
AM

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