CLEMatiS, cleMAHtis, cleMAYtis

[ANNE V. GILBERT]

Larry:

> Aha.  As in "vahz" vs. "vace"--the former is for the vase costs more
> than $100.   I can just see it now:  "The Price of Linguistic
> Variation"

I've herd the vahz/vace variation here in Seattle, and we seem to have the
same "folk" distinction for the pronuniciation here(at least I remember that
distinction when I was in school).
Anne g



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