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[Joel S. Berson]

I'm with Larry in all respects, including "aven-yoo".  Also native
NYC, and I haven't noticed any different in Bahston.

Joel

At 2/28/2012 12:13 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>...
>Funny how we make such different choices, if choices they are, as we
>glide through life, or don't.  It's always been "er-ju-dite" for me
>(< NYC), but I'm glideless in "garrulous" (awful name for a movie),
>as well as in "corrugate". Contra Pedro V, though, I do have a glide
>in "avenue", whether numbered (5th), lettered (C), or named (of the
>Americas).  None even imaginable in "rude" or "ruse", though--and
>I'm sure I'd boggle if I heard anyone else put a glide in those, at
>least on this side of the pond.  I've heard plenty of glides in
>"Tuesday", "news", and such, but I don't go in for them there myself.
>
>LH, native Noo Yorker (no, not Noo Yawka)

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