stars and ours

[Sarah Lang]

I can just give a cheers to the W. CND. pronunciation. That is how I
would say it. (I'm still happy I don't consider "my" and "eye" to
rhyme though--Brown's MFA poetry program was a very interesting study
in pronunciation.)


S.

On May 31, 2007, at 8:09 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> It sounds like Philadelphian to me. It's a feature of Chomsky's
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> On 5/30/07, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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>> Just read a poem by a high school student from western Canada that
>> illustrates a standard Canadian pronunciation rather well: it rhymes
>> "stars" with "ours" -- quite reasonably, though I'm not used to
>> seeing those two words matched, perhaps because at least in my
>> generation and earlier ones, we were taught that "ours" was properly
>> pronounced like "hours," even if it almost never really was by us.
>> Evidently even that awareness of [aUrz] as a citation form is
>> disappearing. (This is from a well-educated kid, too -- a gifted
>> student, graduating high school at 16.)
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>> That one's also common in much of the US, no?
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>> James Harbeck.
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