Heard on local NE PA news

[Tom Zurinskas]

A big trend I hear is the spelnountseeng (say it as it's spelled) of letter "s" at the end when it should be "z".  For instance "eyes" as "ice".  So I guess you're talking about that as well as the two common vowel choices for "vase".

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling




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> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
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>> footnote: a fair number of speakers say that a /krik/ is bigger than
>> a /krIk/. nice sound symbolism.
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> Ah, like the old /veys/ vs. /vaz/ distinction reported (often
> jokingly) for "vase". Discussed here in 2005:
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