"Foodstore" (was Re: Eggcorn?)

[Dennis R. Preston]

No words beginning in /sr/? How about "shrimp," "shrill,"
Shreveport," etc.... Unless you think millions of speakers of South
Midlands dialects don't speak English. I'll leave it up to you to go
toe some bars i Louisville and tell the patrons that they are not
English speakers. I can supply you with addresses.)

dInIs

PS: If you witte back and say you were only talking about Standrd
English, you will be in even bigger trouble (if that's possible).



><grocery>
>
>>  > > pronounced groshery
>>  > Like, there exists another pronunciation? ;-)
>>  Yea, gross-ry
>
>To whoever reported "groshery": Is it tri- or di-syllabic? I could expect a
>disyllabic "GROSS-ry" to become "GROSH-ry":
>         s --> sh /  __ r  (opt)
>         /s/ can become /sh/ before /r/
>
>It's automatic at the beginning of a syllable in English, which is why we
>have words beginning in "shr" but none beginning in "sr".
>
>-- Mark


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