ou'doors

Dale Coye Dalecoye at AOL.COM
Mon Mar 22 21:00:22 UTC 2004


I was reminded when I was visiting my father in Central New York that the
rural pronunciation of "outdoors" up there is /aUdorz/, with equal stress on the
syllables and no trace of a /t/ or glottal stop.   My grandfather also used
"outdoor" for the adv.--don't know if it's unique to that region or not.

Dale Coye
The College of NJ



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