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[A. Maberry]

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