Punxutawney Phil

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

This is not a speech impediment, it is a dialect variation. People who
maintain that dialect variations are "speech impediments" may well have
some kind of mental impediment.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Sent: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 5:45 am
Subject: [ADS-L] Punxutawney Phil

Feb 2 is Groundhog day in US.  If Punxutawney Phil, the groundhog at
Punxutawney Pennsylvania, sees his shadow, it's 6 more weeks of winter.
 He's been about 60% wrong in this prediction.

Locals pronounced it as punks-a-TAW-nee   ~Punksuttaunee

Poor Phil has fallen victim to the awe droppers.  A local weather
forecaster hereabouts in S FL has renamed the rodent punks-a-TAH-nee
(~Punksuttaanee) Phil.  Have they no shame.

To me this means that some folks either will not say the sound "awe" or
have some sort of speech impediment.  Will Milwaukee now be pronounced
mil-WOK-ee ~Milwwaakee instead of mil-WALK-ee ~Milwwaukee.  Well if you
listen to the speaker at m-w.com it already is (event though the
notation indicates the "awe" vowel.  But when you listen to "awe" at
m-w.com, the same lady speaker says "ah".  Not good for this otherwise
very good product).

I wonder if Milwaukee'ns prefer walky or wocky?

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
see truespel.com













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> Date: Mon, 2 Feb
2009 23:42:53 -0500
> From: jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA
> Subject: Re: "dungarees"
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> We didn't use it when I was growing up in Alberta (though my parents
> were from the Buffalo area), so it stood out for me when I saw it in
> a Dave Berg cartoon in MAD Magazine (in the 1970s). It was clearly a
> normal word for Berg and, evidently, for his editors at MAD.
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> James Harbeck.
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