glottalized intervocalic /y/?

[Mark Mandel]

Could that "be ?ond the blue horizon" be (as your spacing suggests) based on
a misanalysis as "be" + a supposed word "ond"?

m a m

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've heard it in Texas used by a then-young black woman who today
> would be, like me, in her seventies. I've also heard it said elsewhere
> - Missouri, California, on radio and TV, etc.
>
> It seems to me to be a rather old and random phenomenon. But I haven't
> really paid much attention to it. I couldn't even say for certain what
> kinds of people - male, female, white, black, or whatever - I've heard
> use it. I clearly recall that, down in Texas, the girl who stood next
> to me in choir sang, "be ?ond the blue horizon." Aside from that, I
> can say only that, unfortunately, I've heard it around everywhere that
> I've ever lived and that I find it annoying.
>
> FWIW, I've never heard the glottal-stopped pronunciation of "mayonnaise."
>
> -Wilson
>

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