[Ads-l] Trivago or Chivago?

[Jonathan Lighter]

You guys are weird.

JL

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan <
> geoffnathan at wayne.edu> wrote:
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> > I say /chruck/ for 'truck'.  Also happens with /d/, gi=
> > ving, for me /jrive/  for 'drive'.
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> So do I. Impressionistically speaking, I think that these are slightly
> retroflex, compared to my regular versions of these sounds. My further
> impression is that my version is common to BE, and even to most speakers,
> because I really do hear "chivago"and not "chrivago." Usually, I don't be
> noticing anything odd about other people's pronunciation of /dr tr/,
> presumably because theirs distributively be the same as mine.
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