sumetary

[Herb Stahlke]

A sound shift is by definition a general phenomenon affecting all
words containing that sound.  There's a YouTube clip you can watch on
the NCVS at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UoJ1-ZGb1w&NR=1
that both describes and gives spoken examples of it.

Herb

On 3/30/09, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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
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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
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>> 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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