sumetary

[Tom Zurinskas]

Is it a genealr vowel shift that applies to more than one word such that short u replaces short e often?  I haven't heard that vowel shift but for this one word, "cemetery" as ~sumutairee

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



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> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:32:50 -0400
> From: hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: sumetary
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Herb Stahlke
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> Tom,
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> 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 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+
>> see truespel.com
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