Variable LABOV

[Alice Faber]

RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
> 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")
>

As someone whose first grade teacher called "Farber" rather than "Faber"
for the entire school year, this doesn't surprise me in the least.

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