pizzeria pronunciation?

[Dennis R. Preston]

With normal syllable divisions (known hereabouts as making the most of your
onsets):

pee-tsuh-REE-uh.

dInIs (who can always spot Wisconsinites, who make the most of onsets to
the point of cluster formation - wI-SKON-suhn, compared to my "normal"
wIs-KON-suhn)



>I grew up in a little Sicily in Brooklyn, and never heard it otherwise
>than [pitz at r'i@] by Italo-Americans, i.e. pitz-ur-EE-uh.  Of course
>Italians said it with different vowels, but the same stress.  How else is
>it said?  RK


Dennis R. Preston
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