"Monday"

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 26, 2012, at 9:21 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 7/26/2012 12:57 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> ...
>> I wonder if Dean Mazzarella, mayor of Leominster (['lEm at nst@r], if
>> anyone is curious), is known as The Big Cheese.
>
> Not the way I hear it up here, rather 'lEm-in-st at r, as in "tin" or
> "sin".  And as I heard it from a Boston TV newscaster earlier this evening.
>
> But I'm not local enough to swear how the Leoministers pronounce
> it.  Nor to respond to the ponder.

I'd have used a barred-i if I knew the ascii for it, but for me, unstressed barred-i and unstressed schwa are basically indistinguishable.

LH
>
> In case anyone is curious and doesn't want to wait for Ben's weekend
> column, the mayor fired the officer today, but there will certainly
> be future developments.  In passing, Major Mazzarella seems to have
> the impression that a police officer *can* be off-duty -- he made a
> point of saying (whether about the incident in question or another)
> that the officer showed his badge, and "can't have it both
> ways".  Meaning I assume that the officer (or his lawyer) claimed it
> was "off-duty" (personal) speech but at the same time made it evident
> he was a police officer.  (I await the Boston Globe tomorrow.)
>
> Joel
>
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