Chimpanzee reduction

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've been familiar with this pronunciation for many years.

JL

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> In "All Things Considered" today, Jon Hamilton uses a reduced =
> pronunciation of "chimpanzee" (CHIM puhn zee) but he's been primed by =
> the pronunciation of Adrian Yagi, a speaker who is not a native speaker =
> of US English. I can't find anything on Yagi, so perhaps I've gotten =
> something wrong there.
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> As I was searching, it appears that the times got corrupted, but =
> Hamilton's pronunciations are at approximately 2:37 and 3:13 in, and =
> Yagi uses the pronunciation soon after the 2:37 usage.
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> "How Did Our Brains Evolve To Equate Food With Love?"
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> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/01/173245261/how-did-our-brains-e=
> volve-to-equate-food-with-love
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> Benjamin Barrett
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