"It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:34 PM -0400 7/21/09, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>@Larry:
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>You mean the case in which "food" sounds very close to [f-u-umlaut-d]?

Yup.

LH

>That's been annoying the hell out of me for years. But what's really
>broken my heart is the use of [&u], a pronunciation once much derided
>amongst the colored as *the* outstanding example of the laughable
>folk-speech of The Man, in place of [au], and the spread of the glo?al
>stop, among younger black speakers. That is, younger than *I* am.
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>That these changes actually *pre-date* the election of a black
>President is astonishing to me. What's their motivation?!
>
>-Wilson
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>>  I have to say that what always struck me about this commercial (or
>>  rather the coda, which appears with slightly different pronunciations
>>  in several different Wendy's commercials that have been airing for
>>  some time) is not the adverb but the fronting of the vowel in "food",
>>  very noticeable for example in this one:
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>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwqJRY67H-k&feature=related
>>
>>  LH
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