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From: smw@tilt.UUCP (Stewart Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: More Regional Pronunciations
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Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 14:14:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  4 14:14:09 1984
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	>From: ewf@ihuxr.UUCP (Gene Foster)
	>
	>Three words come to mind regarding this discussion.  They are
	>roof, root, and route.  I say roof with the double O sound of hook
	>or book.  Easterners say it with the double O sound as in proof.
	>Same thing with root.  I say route like bout only with an r.
	>Others say route to sound like group.

At Princeton, I was watching the Mondale/Hart/Jackson debate last week with
a roomful of people.  Mondale referred to a 'roof' on something, pronounced
like Gene does.  The consensus in the room was that we wouldn't vote for
anyone silly enough to pronounce roof that way!
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