How to pronounce things

Alan H. Hartley ahartley at d.umn.edu
Fri Jun 9 23:04:15 UTC 2006


Wallace Chafe wrote:
> Willem and Bob make me feel a little better about my memory. Maybe I 
> assimilated the uncensored version before it was cleaned up. But now how 
> about the final syllable? My preference is for -shah, but is -shaw a 
> regional variant

In my (Midwestern) dialect, "shah" and "shaw" are both pronounced "shah".

Alan



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