Beh-ril, burr'uhl, and burl
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Jul 21 16:22:57 UTC 2006
Do we have another "merry, Mary, marry"? Various television
personalities (are news readers and weather mappers "personalities"?)
in the Northeast are saying
beh-ril (like "trill")
burr'uhl (like "mull") --many speakers
and
burl (as in Ives the folk singer)
Are these regional? (I, of New York City but educated, say "beh-ril").
Joel
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