No more the "awe" sound in USA

[Jonathan Lighter]

The various anchors on CNN all sounded like they were saying "Don Zimmer."
I too was stunned.

JL


On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu>wrote:

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> And if anyone from Hoboken talked about "Don Zimmer" as the mayor, and not
> the old baseball player, things have changed an "awe"ful lot since I lived
> in NJ.  My form is [do at n]. ([o] a bit centralized), and Hoboken
> (pronounced ['h at u'b^k at n] used to be one of the last strongholds of the
> Brooklynese [@i] , as in doity shoits.
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> On Feb 1, 2014, at 6:01 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET> wrote:
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> > I was wondering how long it'd be before I read a message here about the
> Seahocks and awe-dropping.
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> > Neal
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> >> On Feb 1, 2014, at 1:27 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> >> Is the "awe" phoneme too far gone to save.
> >> =20
> >> The Super bowl team name is "Seahawks".  How many times do we here
> "hocks" =
> >> instead of "hawks".
> >> =20
> >> Her name is "Dawn Zimmer" regarding the NJ scandals.  How many times do
> we =
> >> here "Don" vs "Dawn".
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> >> Tom Zurinskas=2C Conn 20 yrs=2C Tenn 3=2C NJ 33=2C now Fl 9.
> >> See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk
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> >>> And so it has come to pass that we are being taught (tot) to awe-drop
> as =
> >> the standard for US accent.  The sound "awe" exists no more.
> >>> =20
> >>> In the link below Rachel mispronounces the words "jaw" and "coffee"
> for U=
> >> SA accent by using "ah" instead of "awe".  She is an awe-dropper=2C a
> huge =
> >> trend in USA=2C which I oppose.
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> >>> =20
> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DLIZ78RwhSPc
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> >>> =20
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> >>> Tom Zurinskas=2C Conn 20 yrs=2C Tenn 3=2C NJ 33=2C now Fl 9.
> >>> See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk
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