No more the "awe" sound in USA

[Paul Johnston]

And if anyone from Hoboken talked about "Don Zimmer" as the mayor, and not the old baseball player, things have changed an "awe"ful lot since I lived in NJ.  My form is [do at n]. ([o] a bit centralized), and Hoboken (pronounced ['h at u'b^k at n] used to be one of the last strongholds of the Brooklynese [@i] , as in doity shoits.

Paul


On Feb 1, 2014, at 6:01 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET> wrote:

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> I was wondering how long it'd be before I read a message here about the Seahocks and awe-dropping.
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>> On Feb 1, 2014, at 1:27 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> Is the "awe" phoneme too far gone to save.
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>> The Super bowl team name is "Seahawks".  How many times do we here "hocks" =
>> instead of "hawks".
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>> Her name is "Dawn Zimmer" regarding the NJ scandals.  How many times do we =
>> here "Don" vs "Dawn".
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>> Tom Zurinskas=2C Conn 20 yrs=2C Tenn 3=2C NJ 33=2C now Fl 9.
>> See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk
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>>> And so it has come to pass that we are being taught (tot) to awe-drop as =
>> the standard for US accent.  The sound "awe" exists no more.
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>>> In the link below Rachel mispronounces the words "jaw" and "coffee" for U=
>> SA accent by using "ah" instead of "awe".  She is an awe-dropper=2C a huge =
>> trend in USA=2C which I oppose.
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>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DLIZ78RwhSPc
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