Variable LABOV

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Hear "Labov" pronounced with a final schwa + /f/   (varying with open-o +
/f/) at

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Labov&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W68VaOuY6ew&feature=related

Interesting that the seasoned TV announcer apparently did not learn to
pronounce the name as ending in [-ov], even in an interview with the man himself.
Somebody else found it "unnatural" (or maybe it is better to say "intuitively
wrong")


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