Heard on local NE PA news

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> footnote: a fair number of speakers say that a /krik/ is bigger than
> a /krIk/.  nice sound symbolism.

Ah, like the old /veys/ vs. /vaz/ distinction reported (often
jokingly) for "vase". Discussed here in 2005:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0503B&L=ADS-L&P=R11887


--Ben Zimmer

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