"Fo'ward"

[Beverly Flanigan]

Interesting.  I hear this regularly in the speech of Diane Rehm on NPR and
wondered where it came from.

At 05:03 PM 12/13/2006, you wrote:
>I hear "foward" for forward in the (AE) speech of people (who generally
>give /r/ its r-ness) more and more these days.  Except for "Fuggeddaboudit"
>I can't think of other places where this is happening.  When forecastles
>might have turned up in day-to-day speech, I understand it was pronounced
>"fo'c'sle", but I wouldn't know from my own experience!
>AM
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