"Fo'ward"

[Beverly Flanigan]

But these aren't used by r-ful speakers, are they?

At 05:31 PM 12/13/2006, you wrote:
>foh shu-ah (for sure)
>foh evah (forever)
>
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> > 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!
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