/Erjudait/

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Aven-yoo." Yup.

JL

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> I'm with Larry in all respects, including "aven-yoo".  Also native
> NYC, and I haven't noticed any different in Bahston.
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> Joel
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> At 2/28/2012 12:13 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >...
> >Funny how we make such different choices, if choices they are, as we
> >glide through life, or don't.  It's always been "er-ju-dite" for me
> >(< NYC), but I'm glideless in "garrulous" (awful name for a movie),
> >as well as in "corrugate". Contra Pedro V, though, I do have a glide
> >in "avenue", whether numbered (5th), lettered (C), or named (of the
> >Americas).  None even imaginable in "rude" or "ruse", though--and
> >I'm sure I'd boggle if I heard anyone else put a glide in those, at
> >least on this side of the pond.  I've heard plenty of glides in
> >"Tuesday", "news", and such, but I don't go in for them there myself.
> >
> >LH, native Noo Yorker (no, not Noo Yawka)
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