Description of "Filefia" speech in the Times

[Joel S. Berson]

I like "diphthongery" -- it evokes an image of the real housewives of
New Jersey having a summer-time chat on a south shore beach.

Joel

At 3/2/2014 07:45 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/opinion/sunday/the-sound-of-philadelphia-fades-out.html
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>Mostly concerned with phonology, especially vowels, which are
>somewhat randomly described.  (Apparently the pronuncation of "soda"
>as "sewda" involves rounding.  Hard to believe.)  But positive
>"anymore" makes a couple of appearances.
>
>LH
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