NJ Phonetics test

[Tom Zurinskas]

Interestingly, if you click the flags at thefreedictionry.com you hear US = ~wauder and UK = ~wautuI find US switches "t" to ~d often whereas UK keeps the "t" as  ~t but loses the ending "r".
I get a kick out of the Philly pronunciation of their own football team, the Eagles as ~Igoolz (iggles) instead of ~Eegoolz.  (note ~ool is az in "wool" in truespel)

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 12.See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk


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> Dear Tom,
> > You got me right--I am a North Jerseyite, but some of the answers =
> didn't match anything in my speech.  I certainly don't say "wooder" but =
> neither do I say"wah-ter" -- it's "wawter" by the test's spelling =
> system, same as "cawfee" and 'tawk".  And what Jerseyite actually born =
> in the state (I wasn't either, but I came from rhotic Orange County, NY) =
> says "cah" etc, under the age of 80, and not an AAVE speaker.  Maybe the =
> oldest speakers from Hudson County, which is the only place I've heard a =
> person from New Jersey say "Joisey" or possibly parts of Bergen (South) =
> or Essex (East).  And isn't the "cawfee" type of pronunciation found =
> among some Philadelphians, and therefore, among some people from South =
> Jersey?  There are other features which might define a central region, =
> some of which is also found in Warren, Sussex and even Morris county.  =
> My home town, Morristown, and the Oranges to the east has the vowel of =
> north, not the vowel of part to me, and though I'm not really a native, =
> that's what I heard natives say, rather than the NYC and NE Jersey [A].  =
> I also have a rather high [=E6] vowel as the start of out, town, and a =
> diphthong with a central beginning in coat, if not the front beginning =
> of South Jersey.  But my vowel in on is [A], not [O].  I sound more like =
> New Brunswick (and Hackettstown and even Flemington) than I do like =
> Secaucus.  By the way, where do those people down in Salem County =
> fit--they sound less like Philly than the Eastern Shore of MD; it's =
> beyond South Jersey, as we usually think of it.
> 
> Paul
> On Sep 26, 2014, at 10:43 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> =
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