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[Tom Zurinskas]

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Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:30:09 +0000
> From: truespel at HOTMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: Hoarse, four, mourning etc.
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Tom Zurinskas
> Subject: Re: Hoarse, four, mourning etc.
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> I wonder which pronunciation of "for" is most frequent. m-w.com lists ~fer first.
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> Main Entry: 1for
> Pronunciation: \fər, (ˈ)fȯr, Southern also (ˈ)fär\
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> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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>> Sender: American Dialect Society
>> Poster: Laurence Horn
>> Subject: Re: Hoarse, four, mourning etc.
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>> At 10:01 AM -0400 7/2/10, Mark Mandel wrote:
>>>I use "4" for "for" in text-messaging, and AFAIK I don't pronounce them
>>>differently, apart from stress-related difference.
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>> Same here (well, same here if I used text messaging), but I suspect
>> that even text messagers (as I would also refer to them) who
>> distinguish the vowels in question would "forgive" the (relatively
>> slender) difference in this context and use the abbreviation. I
>> remember all of us in high school writing things like "2 Good 2 B
>> 4-Got-10" without pronouncing "forgotten" like 4-Got-10"
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>> LH
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>>>
>>>Sideslipping: Interesting that you use "messengers" here. I would use
>>>"messagers", from the (recent?) verb "to message" 'to send a message',
>>>reserving "messenger" for 'one who carries a message'.
>>>
>>>m a m
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>>>On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Margaret Lee wrote:
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>>>> Do you think that text messengers, advertisers and others who use the
>>>> number 4 in place of 'for' make a distinction in the pronunciation of four
>>>> and for?
>>>>
>>>> --Margaret Lee
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