pronunciation of "Syracuse"

[Jocelyn Limpert]

The correct pronunciation is SNOW!

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Jerome Foster <funex79 at charter.net> wrote:

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> It's because they drink a lot of milk in upste NY.
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> From: "Alice Faber" <faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU>
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> > On 12/30/10 6:09 PM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
> >> On the TV broadcast of the oddly-named New Era Pinstripe Bowl football
> >> game (Syracuse vs. Kansas State) the announcer has been consistently
> >> pronouncing "Syracuse" as [sEr at kjuz].
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> >> Of course, a historical (and orthographic) /E/ preceding /r/ has
> >> frequently come to be manifested as [I]--for instance, in "here" or
> >> "era"--but is the opposite process common?
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> > That's a fairly common regional pronunciation. I'm not sure what the
> > limits are, but I suspect it's around Syracuse itself, as a lot of the
> > folks I hear it from are sports analysts and announcers whose degrees
> > are from there.
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