"awe" phoneme has disappeared

[Laurence Horn]

On Jan 30, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:

> Not a joke.  Jay Leno says "ah-some" instead of "awesome."  He's from Mass but now lives in LA.
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> The voices of thefreedictionary.com say
> USA - ahsome  ~aasum
> UK - ohsome  ~oesum
> speaker icon  awesome  ~ausum
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> Standardization would be a good thing.  Where would we be without it.
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In the English speaking world, perhaps?

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>> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:39:19 -0500
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>> You mean like the joke?
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>> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~choh/german.htm
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>> DanG
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>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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>>> On Jan 30, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Michael Newman wrote:
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>>>>> The answer is minimal pair drills in preschool to 6th grade. This merge
>>>>> must be stopped! If not, America might as well end up as the 11th province. ;)
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>>>> You laugh, but have you ever watched Nick Jr. for any length of time?
>>>> Because of all the Canadian content (Dino Dan, Little Bear, Franklin,
>>>> Max & Ruby), you can hear the Canadian Shift an awful lawt. Where's
>>>> the legislation to save our kids' vowels from this northern menace?
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>>>> --bgz
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>>> I think we should throw anyone who produces excess phonemes in jail. Merge until we have only five vowels and then spelling will be simpler.
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>>> Benjamin Barrett
>>> Seattle, WA
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