CONtract/conTRACT

[Dennis R. Preston]

Where you think some of them Oregonians come from anyhow?

dInIs

>Southerners and some Oregonians.
>
>allen
>maberry at u.washington.edu
>
>On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>
>>  Whatcha mean "No."? That's what I said. Southerners say ICE cream
>>  (like all the other items in my list).
>>
>>  dInIs
>>
>>  >No, Northerners (like us Minnesotans) usually say ice-CREAM, except in the
>>  >rhyme "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream."  BTW, my
>>  >diphthongs would all be centralized (or "Canadianized," if you prefer)--to
>>  >/wedge y/--in the stressed pronoun and 'ice'.
>>  >
>>  >At 02:28 PM 10/31/01 +0800, you wrote:
>>  >>At 1:51 PM -0500 10/31/01, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>>  >>>Many of us Southerners eschew fancy-pants Romance stress rules and go
>>  >>>for a root (or even misunderstood as root) earlier syllable. I bet
>>  >>>them good ol- CON-tract speakers are also
>>  >>>
>>  >>>CE-ment
>>  >>>ICE-cream
>>  >>>UM-brella
>>  >>>and even
>>  >>>TEN-nessee
>>  >>>
>>  >>>speakers.
>>  >>Isn't everyone (at least in this country) an ICE-cream speaker?  To
>>  >>join CE-ment and UM-brella, you could trade in your ICE-cream for
>>  >>PO-lice.
>>  >>
>>  >>larry
>>  >
>>  >
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>>  Dennis R. Preston
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Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
preston at pilot.msu.edu
Office: (517)353-0740
Fax: (517)432-2736