reservoir.

[Dennis R. Preston]

Not unless the Pacific Northwest includes Louisville, KY.

dInIs



>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
>>

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