Raleigh, N.C. -- awesome or aw-dropping?

[Laurence Horn]

On Feb 13, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Paul Johnston wrote:

> No, that'd be a [roUli poUli}.  The [o] in Paulie is centralized and the first half of a diphthong.  If I'm on my best behavior, it's [pO(:)li} but I usually have something of a New York city vowel shift.  Just not as advanced as Fran Drescher's or Cyndi Lauper's.

Doesn't that go more toward the [u@]?  I'm thinking of the shibboleth NYC pronunciation of "coffee" as, approximately, COO-uh-fee.

LH
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> Paul(ie)
> On Feb 13, 2014, at 10:19 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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