_toluene_

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not that I say it every day.

JL

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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
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> Oh wow, man!
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> 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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