Square from Delaware, etc

[Tom Zurinskas]

My father who was stationed there 60 years ago pronounces the "kane" in "Spokane" as "kane" (hear "kane" at m-w.com).  Stress is on the 2nd syllable.  But m-w.com pronounces the "kane" in "Spokane" as "can".

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:02:39 -0400
> From: Berson at ATT.NET
> Subject: Re: Square from Delaware, etc
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: "Joel S. Berson"
> Subject: Re: Square from Delaware, etc
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> At 9/4/2008 07:19 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>At 1:16 PM -0700 9/4/08, Brian Hitchcock wrote:
>>>Re the below: What sense is "lane" being used in, that rhymes with
>>>"Spokane"? (ie, with "man", "can", etc)?
>>
>>I gather it's the "Spokane" that's pronounced in a weird way
>>(/spokeyn/), not the "lane".
>
> So now, in addition to all my other faults, I have weird speech? Is
> that a term of art from linguistics, like "slurred speech" or
> "unintelligible speech"? :-)
>
> Frankly, I think anyone who said "a lane from Spokane" and didn't
> rhyme the two would be weird.
>
> Joel
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