"No pork on my fork"

[Beverly Flanigan]

Pay-ru (IN), Chi-lee (IN), Lie-ma (OH), Rye-o Grand (OH), . . .  Didn't we
cover these a few years ago?

At 08:51 AM 6/21/2005, you wrote:
>Narbonne...
>
>JL
>
>"Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU> wrote:
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>Ah! Versailles, Madrid, Cairo...
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>dInIs
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> >I had a friend in grad school who grew up near Arab, Alabama. He
> >said it was always pronounced "AY-rab."
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> >JL
> >
> >Wilson Gray wrote:
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> >On Jun 20, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Mullins, Bill wrote:
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> >>> During the Korean-War era, a friend of mine was stationed at
> >>> Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville. According to him, GI's
> >>> referred to the locals as "doo-wahs," because of a feature of
> >>> the local dialect. Instead of saying, "huh? or "what?" or
> >>> even "say what?", the locals said, "_Do_ what?"
> >>>
> >>> Thanks to Jerry Springer, I can testify that "do what?" is
> >>> still used in this way, though, unfortunately, I can't say
> >>> where, since the "guests" don't always mention their home
> >>> states or hometowns. To my ear, "do what?" has the same
> >>> intonation pattern as "say what?"
> >>>
> >>> -Wilson Gray
> >>
> >> I still say "do what?" in the context you mention (reared in Middle
> >> Tennessee).
> >>
> >> And that would have been the KO-re-un war . . . (strong emphasis on
> >> the initial syllable)
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> >
> >Needless to say, I don't think that you'll have any problem believing
> >that the same people who say "JAY pan" also say "KO rea." ;-)
> >
> >-Wilson
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>Dennis R. Preston
>University Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
>Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages
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>Michigan State University
>East Lansing, MI 48824
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