Pronouncing "Massachusetts"

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 04:13 PM 8/3/2007, you wrote:
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>Poster:       "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
>Subject:      Re: Pronouncing "Massachusetts"
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>On Aug 3, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
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> > You may be right on his Mississippi; I'll listen again.  It
> > surprised me
> > because I associate the reduction with Southern speech, and I don't
> > think
> > Cooper is from the South.
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>he most surely is not.  from the wikipedia page on him:
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>    Anderson Cooper was born on June 3, 1967 in New York City, as the
>younger son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist,
>designer, writer, and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt. He is of mostly
>English, Irish, Dutch and Spanish ancestry.
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>(i think putting "heiress" last is a nice touch.)
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>arnold
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And listing his nationalities must be SO important--except that that
Spanish must throw some readers for a loop.

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