_toluene_

[Jonathan Lighter]

[ou] sounds right to Yankee me.

JL
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Heard this pronounced by a TV actor as
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> TOLE-you-ween [touLuwin].
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> Haven't heard that before. I'm used to
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> TALL-you-ween [tOLuwin].
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> Did the actor sleep through high-school chem?
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> Or am I once again behind the language-change  curve?
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