blowzy

[Jonathan Lighter]

I grew up with both / grisi/ and / grizi /, but never in all my life have I
heard / lausi /.

JL

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> > A reminder:  In many varieties of Southern American English (including
> my own and, I would expect, Wilson's) "blouse" and "lousy" are pronounced
> with a [z].  Unlike > in the [s]-speaking parts of the country(which is
> most of them?).
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> Wait. What? Of *course* these two words are pronounced with a [z]!
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