"Cooper" redux

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:03 AM -0400 10/13/04, Alice Faber wrote:
>
>Second, I heard Peyton Manning interviewed on Mike and Mike in the
>Morning this morning. His vowel in his brother's first name was not
>[U]; it was far fronter than that, approaching a slightly rounded [I]
>or barred-i (there are limits to what I can do with ASCII phonetics!).
>

I missed the interview, so when I first read this I was wondering how
Peyton came to pronounce "Eli" with a barred-i (and in which
syllable), but then I realized they must have another brother named
Cooper.

Larry