Folk Awareness oif Dialect

[Mark Odegard]

>From: Ray Ott <Amcolph at AOL.COM>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Folk Awareness oif Dialect
>Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 09:48:45 EST
>
>#14.  Here in IL, of course, with  our Cairo=Kay-ro and
>Marseilles=Mar-sales,
>etc.
>but everywhere in the Confederate Diaspora as well, I think.  The rigidly
>English pronunciation of non-English spellings (In CA one is beginning to
>hear such things as Buena Vista=Beeyuna Vista) springs from a determined
>Nativism rather than mere ignorance.


Iowa has a Byou-n@ Vista. And GUT- at n-burg. The classic is N at -'vay-d@ for
Nevada. Much of this is from giving the spelling its logical AmE
pronunciation. By a certain logic, then, these renderings are 'correct' in
that Iowa is the heardland of the classic General American accent.


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