Weird pronunciations

[Wilson Gray]

Hey, that sounds like something from the old "Li'l Abner" comic strip.

-Wilson

On Feb 24, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Jeff Prucher wrote:

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> --- Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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>> There's a black woman on the Jerry Springer Show who is repeatedly
>> pronouncing "confuse" and "confusion" as though they had umlaut u:
>> conf[ue]se  conf[ue]sion and which Jerry is repeating in mockery as
>> "confooze" and "confoozhun."
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> That is both confoozin' and amoozin'.
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> Jeff Prucher
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