_toluene_

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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> [ou] sounds right to Yankee me.
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> JL

Oh wow, man!

Well, that there's a dialect-split is worth knowing.

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> 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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