Hallucinating distinctions (was New Jersey Dialects)

[Patti J. Kurtz]

Thanks, Doug.  I meant to get back to this thread, then got busy.  But
that's the best way I could put it, too.  Though even "ah" isn't exactly
right, but it's about as close as I can get.  So in non IPA, it would be
"caahch" with sort of a drawn out vowel there.

Patti (raised in Pittsburgh and now trying to describe hr dialect to ND
students)

douglas at NB.NET wrote:

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>>Um-- not sure.
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>This is in reference to the word "couch". I think the distinctive
>Pittsburgh feature here is that the "ow" /au/ sound is like "ah" /a/ in
>Pittsburgh, so it's "dahntahn" for "downtown", "power" sounds about the
>same as "par", etc. So "couch" would be /katS/ or so, I think.
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>-- Doug Wilson, Pittsburgh (but born and raised in the [outside] world)
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Dr. Patti J. Kurtz

Assistant Professor, English

Director of the Writing Center

Minot State University

Minot, ND 58707



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