More on "calvary"

James Harbeck jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA
Thu Apr 26 23:37:05 UTC 2007


>"Reverberate" is standard. Did he say something different, like
>?"reverberberate"?

Oh, sorry, dialectal perspective here. I'm used to a pronunciation
wherein the e between the b and its following r is elided entirely. I
have just come to realize that this is perhaps not as common as I had
thought! Learn something new every day...

James Harbeck.

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