laud/loud

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/13/2008 02:38 PM, Scot LaFaive wrote:
>I don't have the low-back merger, and I've always pronounced them the same.

When speaking Latin?
Joel

>Of course, I rarely us "laud" and I've been to know to screw up and use
>pronounce "wield" as "weld" without noticing.
>
>Scot
>
>On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > An MSNBC newsreader just talked about people being [laUd at d] for good
> > deeds.
> > I suspect her writer had written <lauded> and she didn't recognize the
> > word,
> > at all or at that moment, on the teleprompter.  Would an educated
> > twenty-something not know the <laud>/<loud> contrast?  I couldn't tell
> > from
> > her speech at the moment whether she has the low back vowel merger.
> > Charitably, it could have been a slip.
> >
> > Herb
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