" Olive, the other reindeer"

[Charles Doyle]

I do [ju] for "you," stressed and unstressed!

--Charlie
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>Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:54:10 -0400
>From: Dennis Preston <preston at MSU.EDU>
>Subject: Re: " Olive, the other reindeer"
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>Poster:       Dennis Preston <preston at MSU.EDU>
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>Charlie,
>
>If you mean schwa by @, why wouldn't you have a schwa in that
>unstressed position? Don't pert nigh everbody? (Whether you've made
>an affricate of the /d/ in "made you" or not.)
>
>dInIs
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>>It wasn't the r-lessness that confused me, I think; it was the
>>vowel, [j@] instead of [ju] for "you."
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>>--Charlie
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>>>Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:01:46 -0400
>>>From: "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU>
>>>Subject: Re: " Olive, the other reindeer"
>>>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>>>I also do not have r-deletion, but I got this one immediately (in
>>>the 12th century when I first heard it). Maybe I had a more
>>>flexible ear when I was a Ute.
>>>
>>>dInIs
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>>>>Poster:       Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
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>>>>Try this one, dInIs. It's one of those old title-author jokes (it
>>>>doesn't work at all in my dialect; I can't remember how long it
>>>>took me to "get it"):
>>>>
>>>>_School Lunches_, by Maj. Sick.
>>>>
>>>>--Charlie
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>Dennis R. Preston
>University Distinguished Professor
>Department of English
>Morrill Hall 15-C
>Michigan State University
>East Lansing, MI 48864 USA
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