CONtract/conTRACT

[Peter A. McGraw]

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



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu