CONtract/conTRACT

[A. Maberry]

Southerners and some Oregonians.

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

> 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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