[Ads-l] Pronunciation

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 28 08:55:56 UTC 2017


On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Shawnee Moon <moon.shawnee at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'd love to hear where you were raised


I grew up in Sant Louis in the ’40’s through he early ’60’s. In those days,
the best American English was spoken in the so-called "St. Louis Corridor.
We not only distinguished "caught" from "cot," but also "horse" from
"hoarse" and "fore" from "four." We really _cared_!


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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