sumetary

[Herb Stahlke]

Tom,

That's probably a Northern Cities Vowel Shift speaker.  Among the
vowel shifts involved in that complex pattern of shifts is the vowel
of "bed" shifting back to the vowel of "bud."  You'll hear that pretty
commonly in the cities along the Great Lakes, from Syracuse and
Rochester over to Milwaukee.

Herb

On 3/30/09, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> From the Bob and Tom show today I heard cemetary pronounced SUMetary by all.
>  Strangely common.  From two talking dictionaries it's spoken ~semutairee,
> as I would suppose.
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> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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