A nursery rhyme
Peter A. McGraw
pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU
Tue Jul 20 21:50:19 UTC 2004
Now that's a first for me!
The classic pronunciation of those who don't hail from the state is
[origa:n], and I've also heard [ar at g@n] (both in contrast to the native
[orig at n]). But this is the first I've heard of the variant you report
using, which sounds like a blend of the two "furriner" pronunciations cited
above.
Peter Mc.
--On Tuesday, July 20, 2004 2:32 PM -0700 Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> Exactly. And I used to say /a/ reg /a/ n {Oregon) too till I was
> ridiculed out of it.
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