reservoir.

[Benjamin Barrett]

Sorry, I meant the "w" sound. The word memoir and probably savior
faire, though, sounds fine to me either with or without the "r"
after the "wah".

(I left avoidupois out of the list because I've never heard it
pronounced so that it didn't sound a bit snobbish.)

Benjamin Barrett in Tukwila

> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf Of ANNE V. GILBERT

> Benjamin:
>
> > I definitely hear wah in voir dire, boudoir, film noir
> savoir faire
> > and memoir. This could just be limited to my family,
> though. (Here
> > in Seattle for about 100 years).
>
> I guess the pronunciation(at least in this part of the
> country --- can't
> speak for any other region)depends on whether you want to
> appear educated
> and "knowledgeable", or sound like a "local".  You have
> to remember that
> there are still people who consider anything west of the
> Mississippi to be
> somehow "provincial", and therefore not to be imitated.
> Anne g