a working progress

[Beverly Flanigan]

And of course there's Scott Simon of NPR, who says
"lit-tra-tchuer"--probably super-"cultured" rather than regional.  But
there's definitely an 'r' in there, unlike "statue for stature."

At 03:15 PM 5/16/2006, you wrote:
> >On May 16, 2006, at 1:09 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >
> >> How about these two?
> >>
> >> "... small in statue ..."
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~
>There is a southeastern dialect in which  "-ture" is pronounced "tew" (like
>yew). I once knew a highly-educated family whose members said, e.g.,
>"temperatew" for what  I         would pronounce "temprachur."
>Unfortunately I can't remember just where they came from.
>  "...Small in statue ..." might in some cases be an example of the same.
>AM
>
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