"parap(@)legic" (UNCLASSIFIED)

Tue May 22 19:07:41 UTC 2007

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of James Harbeck
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 11:30 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: "parap(@)legic"
>
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> >I know I also insert a vowel sound there. But now that I know it's
> >naughty, I will continue to do so :)
>
> Are you aware of other places in your dialect (or idiolect?)
> where you similarly insert a schwa between [p] and [l]? That
> is, is there a documentable transformation pattern?
>

Near Nashville, where I grew up, is the small town Smyrna TN.  I often
heard it said "Suh-myrna".  I was in Atlanta yesterday, and heard the
same pronounciation in reference to Smyrna GA.
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