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[Beverly Flanigan]

And it may well be ICE cream in Minnesota now too, for all I know (and
Fritz suggests).  I haven't lived there in a LONG time.  (So maybe I'm an
OLD outlier.)

At 03:29 PM 10/31/01 -0800, you wrote:
>It's ICE-cream and RE-search for this temporarily displaced Oregonian.
>
>allen
>maberry at u.washington.edu
>
>On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
>
> > I think here in Oregon ICE-cream is the norm .  I don't know that I
> have ever even heard ice-CREAM from a webfoot.  I also live for 8 years
> in Minnesota and never heard anything but ICE cream.
> > My wife, also a native webfoot, applies stress to the first element of
> letter combinations.  For example, for her it's Vcr (VCR), Byu (Brigham
> Young University), and so on.  I do not know where she got this--it is
> certainly is not anything I have heard from anyone else here in Oregon
> and I am not sure her siblings or parents say it, altho I think her mom might.
> > Fritz Juengling
> >
> > >>> "Peter A. McGraw" <pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU> 10/31/01 01:39PM >>>
> > I've always said ice CREAM, but my general impression is that neither one
> > would have struck me as out of place anywhere (OR, OH, NJ, CA) I've lived,
> > with the possible exception of Tennessee, where I'm not sure anybody but me
> > said ice CREAM.
> >
> > (Didn't we have this discussion on this list a few years ago?  Or--is it in
> > Allan's book?)
> >
> > Peter Mc.
> >
> > --On Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:27 PM -0800 "ANNE V. GILBERT"
> > <avgilbert at PRODIGY.NET> wrote:
> >
> > > Beverly:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> 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'.
> > >
> > > It's ICE cream in the Seattle area AFAIK.
> > > Anne G
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ****************************************************************************
> >                                Peter A. McGraw
> >                    Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
> >                             pmcgraw at linfield.edu
> >


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