reservoir.

[A. Maberry]

Peter, Anne and I agree, so it must have something to do with the Pacific
Northwest. "Reservor" is what I grew up with.

Allen
maberry at u.washington.edu

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, ANNE V. GILBERT wrote:

> Peter:
>
> > This discussion amazes me, because I haven't yet heard my pronunciation
> > mentioned: "reservor."  At least that's how I learned it as a child.  I
> may
> > have modified it as an adult after I had learned some French, because
> > "reservwar" sounds right, too, and I'm not sure which I actually use
> > nowadays.  Certainly not "reservwah," which definitely sounds affected, at
> > least from speakers of rhotic dialects.
> >
> > I think "reservor" is the pronunciation I've heard in the humorous useage
> > in which the uneducated American renders "au revoir" as "ah reservor."
>
> Holy moly!  "Reservor" is what I always heard as a child and when I was
> growing up.  Then some people I knew who wanted to seem educated(although I
> knew they'd come from a poor background), and listened to certain announcers
> on NPR  a lot, kept talking about "reservwah", although I knew perfectly
> well they didn't know any French.  It sounded weird to me.  But maybe not to
> other people in other parts of the country. . . .
> Anne G
>