Description of "Filefia" speech in the Times

[Laurence Horn]

On Mar 2, 2014, at 11:35 PM, Herb Stahlke wrote:

> Wearing two phthongs each?

Or a triphthong--a thong on each of her pheet, and one thong left over for a different site of her choosing.

LH
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> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> I like "diphthongery" -- it evokes an image of the real housewives of
>> New Jersey having a summer-time chat on a south shore beach.
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>> Joel
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>> At 3/2/2014 07:45 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/opinion/sunday/the-sound-of-philadelphia-fades-out.html
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>>> Mostly concerned with phonology, especially vowels, which are
>>> somewhat randomly described.  (Apparently the pronuncation of "soda"
>>> as "sewda" involves rounding.  Hard to believe.)  But positive
>>> "anymore" makes a couple of appearances.
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