pronunciation of "Syracuse"

[Jerome Foster]

Sorry. I meant " melk."
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> It's because they drink a lot of milk in upste NY.
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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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