Heard on The Judges: "mother dear," "souphomore"

[Tom Zurinskas]

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Main Entry: 1soph·o·more
Pronunciation: \ˈsäf-ˌmȯr also ˈsȯf- or ˈsä-fə- or ˈsȯ-fə-\

The speaker says ~saafmor (~aa as in Saab)
I would go with ~saufmor (~au as in laud) which is sȯf above

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:48:49 -0400
> From: marcjvelasco at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: Heard on The Judges: "mother dear," "souphomore"
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> From what I hear, "sophmore" seems the standard pronunciation, while
> "sophomore" would strike me as hypercorrect, and rare.
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> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Wilson Gray  wrote:
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>> Subject: Heard on The Judges: "mother dear," "souphomore"
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>> Judge Joe Brown addressed the mother of a litigant as "mother dear":
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>> "_Mother dear_, step forward!"
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>> In addition, he referred to a college student multiple times as a
>> "souphmore" [sawfmowr].
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>> I was mildly surprised to hear "mother dear" used as a term of address
>> for someone else's mother. I thought that that that usage had pretty
>> much died out. Obviously, I just haven't heard it used, because I've
>> been living Boston's Back Bay for the past twenty years.
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>> OTOH, "souphmore," "souphmo'," etc. are pretty much "standard" in BE.
>> Only people like me who've made the effort to learn sE say
>> "sophomore," which is felt to be a hypercorrection in the 'hood.
>>
>> -Wilson
>> -
>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> -----
>> -Mark Twain
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