Standard US English Dialect?

[Tom Zurinskas]

I'd hate to hear him say the word "pope".

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:00:50 -0400
> From: paul.johnston at WMICH.EDU
> Subject: Re: Standard US English Dialect?
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Paul Johnston
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> When I was a kiddie, Ed Sullivan became a stereotype for talking
> about a really big "shew", pronounced like shoe. No idea where he
> was from, though I've heard of Western versions of this raising, and
> of /e/ to /i/ too.
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> Paul Johnston
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> On Apr 15, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Doug Harris wrote:
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>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Laurence Horn
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>> wrote:
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>>> At 12:14 PM -0400 4/15/08, Paul Johnston wrote:
>>>> For /u/-the moon, spoon, boot, hoop, do, too group. Possibly
>>>> brewed,
>>>> dude, new etc if there's no contrast between /u/ and /Iu~ju/.
>>>> For /o/-the coat, road, cone, hope, poke, go, no, grow group.
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>> I'd imagine you'd include _snow_ in that group -- but not in the
>> accent of a public radio station announcer in Binghamton NY. He
>> pronounces _snow_ as if it were spelled _snew_. I don't know where
>> he's from; he may be a local boy; but I don't think I've ever heard
>> such a strong _eww_ sound in a word I'd rhyme with _owe_ before.
>> dh
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