Sullivan's "show"

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 4/16/08 3:31:18 PM, thnidu at GMAIL.COM writes:


> I don't think that was a general raising for Sullivan.
>

Not so much a raising as a fronting, I think, though there are surely sound
recordings around that could be analyzed definitively. He wasn't really saying
"shoe"--people just describe it that way if it sounds unusual and they don't
know what else to write.


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