the Freedom Fricative

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:26 PM -0500 12/5/03, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>Yeah, imagine how irate us Hunkeys get when Kodaly and even Bartok
>get syllable-final stress under this rule.
>
>By the way, not one yet seems to have commented on the young women
>who teaches "Overnmitt" (an Arby's ad character) to say 'au jus'.
>Although she does not use a front-rounded vowel, she does not use the
>final /s/ (which Ovenmitt does), and that appears to be the point of
>her repetitions.
>
>Interestingly, however, the voice over which follows this linguistic
>lesson still notes that we should try this stuff "with au jus."
>
>Phonology first; lexicon next appears to be the rule.
>
>dInIs

And let's not forget the wonderful practice of out-Frenching the
French, as in the rendering of "coup de grâce" as "KOO D'GRAH"
instead of "KOO D'GRAHS".

larry