Will that be pop, soda or a soft drink?

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:22 PM -0500 3/15/03, Bethany K. Dumas wrote:
>On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Matthew Gordon wrote:
>
>>As for 'pasta', maybe the author noted that the American pronunciation
>>differed from the Canadian, which has something like /ae/ for both
>>syllables, but noticed only the second syllable as having /a/; thus
>>assuming Americans say /paesta/. Just a guess.
>
>It's pahstah (or pasta if you prefer)for me - no "ae."
>
And for everyone else I've heard pronouncing it in the U.S.  What was
weird was the impression from the article that it's the Canadians who
say "pahstuh" and the Amurricans who say "paestuh".