coffee (was: Duke and dook)

[Dennis R. Preston]

>You'd been in Berkeley too long.

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>Laurence Horn  scripsit:
>
>OK, d'accord.  I know the shibboleth for the NYCization of open o is
>"coffee", similiarly pronounced with a diphthong that starts life at
>[u], but there again, given the inglide, it clearly doesn't rhyme
>with "goofy".
>
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>
>Huh! I grew up in NYC, and lived there until 73, when I left for graduate
>school in Berkeley. When I moved to the Boston area in 1980, I was struck by
>the extremely high onset of the first syllable vowel in "coffee", which
>sounded very unfamiliar to me.
>
>-- Mark A. Mandel
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