Bre'r

[Dennis R. Preston]

No, dangit arnold; I meant she didn't trill or something silly. Of
course she pronounces one /r/. What kind of persons do you think us
lower midwesterners are anyhow? Some kind of godless pinko r-droppers?

dInIs

>dInIs sez:
>  >My mother pronounces every consonant in "raspberry" (except for the
>  >two "r"s of course).
>
>your mother says "raspbe'y"?  how peculiar.
>
>arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)

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Dennis R. Preston
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Michigan State University
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