CONtract/conTRACT

[Dennis R. Preston]

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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