How to pronounce things

[david costa]

'Shah' and 'Shaw' are supposed to sound different?? :-)

Dave

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Alan H. Hartley" <ahartley at d.umn.edu>
>Sent: Jun 9, 2006 4:04 PM
>To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>Subject: Re: How to pronounce things
>
>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