NY accent is dying out?

[Michael Newman]

But "aw" is the "standard" pseudophonetic for the raised NYCE (and still very much with us thank you very much) variant [Ê É™]  that is stereotyped in the word "coffee"



Michael Newman
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Queens College/CUNY
michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu



On Jan 21, 2012, at 11:07 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:

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> NY accent is dying out?
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9027125/Fuhgeddabou=
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> This article uses "cawfee" for "coffee" as an example.  I would think that =
> "cawfee" ~kaufee is the standard pronunciation.  (Note that "awe-droppers" =
> would be attacking this word as well as any word word having "awe" (backwar=
> ds c - IPA) in it and replacing it with "ah".  That includes the word "awe"=
> itself=2C as per m-w.com.
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> Tom Zurinskas=2C Conn 20 yrs=2C Tenn 3=2C NJ 33=2C now Fl 9.
> See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk
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