email problem

[Tom Zurinskas]

Thanks Sam,  I see your reply on the ADS list but not my query.  This post is sent to the ads list as well.

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


 
 



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> Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster: Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>
> Subject: Re: email problem
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> I didn't see anything except spam.
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> Sam Clements
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Zurinskas" <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 21:14
> Subject: email problem
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> > Email problems. Let me know if you see this on the ADS list as well.
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> > Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
> > see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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> >> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:30:09 +0000
> >> From: truespel at HOTMAIL.COM
> >> Subject: Re: Hoarse, four, mourning etc.
> >> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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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.
> >>
> >> Main Entry: 1for
> >> Pronunciation: \fər, (ˈ)fȯr, Southern also (ˈ)fär\
> >>
> >> Please reply to this or let me know if you see this on the ADS list. I've
> >> got spam deletion problems.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>>
> >>> 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"
> >>>
> >>> LH
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>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
> >>>>
> >>>>On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Margaret Lee wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> 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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