vase vs. vase

[Dave Hause]

Pretentiousness?
Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>

It may even be that some dealers in vases deliberately changed their
pronunciation on the  assumption that /vaz/ sounded more "English" and
therefore elegant and the sort of thing one would say to a high-toned
customer in the market for expensive objets d'art.

There must be a name for these phenomena. I mean besides "flattery" and
"gullibility."

JL