CONtract/conTRACT

[A. Maberry]

That's certainly where my ancestors came from. Years ago someone from the
East Coast who knew I was from out west said he could tell I was from
Oregon because I had "an Oregon accent". I always thought it was just a
lucky guess, but maybe not ...

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

> 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
> 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
>