avenoo

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not especially. It's pretty common everywhere in NYC, but mainly among
blue-collar types (in my experience).

Of course if you're tawkin' book-an'-movie stereotypes, I'd say yes. And
Brooklyn even more so.

JL




On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Do Larry or Jon associate "a-ve-noo" with the Lower East Side (Dead
> End Kids, etc.)?  I have a tendency in that direction.
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> Joel
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> At 2/28/2012 11:52 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >"Aven-yoo." Yup.
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> >JL
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> >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.
> > >
> > > Joel
> > >
> > > 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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