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