mark by hand (was: the curious phonology of Wisconsin)

[Dennis R. Preston]

larry's right; the beer is spelled with a "Y"; (I forgot), but the
panda pronunciation is certainly what I had in mind.

dInIs



>At 12:07 PM -0500 11/23/04, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>>>Fritz,
>>
>>You obviously don't live where your namesake beer is sold; there your
>>name would be familiar to every beer-belly in town.
>>
>If that's the Penn. version, it wouldn't help with the spelling,
>which is Yuengling.  Whether it would help with the pronunciation
>depends on how Fritz renders his "Juengling"; the beer is pronounced
>"Ying-Ling", which has always reminded me of one of the offshoots of
>the panda family.
>
>--larry, whose last name presents its own problems


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