route

[Dennis R. Preston]

I'm with Alice (well, I didn't grow up in NYC), but I am a honest
South-Midlander (Louisville, KY), and I cannot introspect which I use
(except I always sing 'root' in the song Route 66, but I suspect I am
Nat King Cole imitator in this).

There is  very good thesis (even a dissertation) in "failed
introspection" in the fuzzy borderland between psycho- and
sociolinguistics.

dInIs




>Prof. R. Sussex wrote:
>>I am trying to check if the root/raut pronunciation or "route" lines
>>up with the Mason-Dixon Line. Is this correct?
>
>You couldn't prove it by me. I grew up in the  1960's in the New York City
>suburbs (well north of the Mason-Dixon line), and I grew up absolutely
>confused as to which pronunciation was "right". It wasn't like "soda" vs
>"pop", where I knew both pronunciations but was sure that "soda" was right
>and "pop" was an interloper. It was more like "dived" vs "dove", where I
>knew both pronunciations and was so confused that I resorted to
>circumlocution to avoid committing myself to one or the other.
>
>
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