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<DIV>I don't think that the way a peson pronounces words necessarily makes them a hick. "Hick" is a derrogatory term that refers to people that are uneducated and stupid. I am from southeastern Kentucky and I assure you there are both intelligent and not so intelligent people there, just as there are everywhere. I think that the fact that we all pronounce things different should not make anyone feel inferior-- since those of us on this mailing claim to be educated people, I think we should realize that diversity is a good thing. I like my accent, it is a part of who I am, the way I say a character out of the bible shouldn't determine my inetelligence or anything else about me for that matter. I assure you that the people whose names appear in the bible aren't going to come back to haunt is if we don't pronounce their name correctly.</DIV>
<DIV>>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>To: ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: /zh/ replacing /dzh/?
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 13:14:20 -0400
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>You'd better call them hicks Hoosiers. Fritz must be from one of
<DIV></DIV>>them
<DIV></DIV>>places that ain't got no hicks.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>dInIs
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>>Well, of course, the right way to say Elijah has neither /zh/ nor
<DIV></DIV>>>/dzh/...
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Well, what is the 'right' way?
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>>but I don't think I've ever heard a non-affricated English
<DIV></DIV>>>pronunciation. Garage with /dzh/ strikes me as a Britishism
<DIV></DIV>>>("Britishcism?).
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>GaraZH has always sounded like some affectation. I can see
<DIV></DIV>>pronouncing 'liege' with ZH; maybe the speaker is trying to sound
<DIV></DIV>>more French. The Normans had lieges and so on. So, with respect to
<DIV></DIV>>those old social classes... However, the garage hardly seems to be
<DIV></DIV>>the place to be puttin' on airs. When I hear some hick from Indiana
<DIV></DIV>>say 'garazh' I snicker.
<DIV></DIV>>BTW, no one (at least that I have seen) has mentioned the Taj Mahal.
<DIV></DIV>>TaJ or TaZH?
<DIV></DIV>>Fritz Juengling
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