reservoir.

[Beverly Flanigan]

And Minnesota.  (The medial /r/ may drop out in fast speech though, as
others have noted.)

At 07:30 AM 4/17/01 -0400, you wrote:
>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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