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From: stekas@hou2g.UUCP (J.STEKAS)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: More Regional Pronunciations
Message-ID: <216@hou2g.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 17:40:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  4 17:40:51 1984
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Speaking of "roof, root and route" - in SW Pennsylvania there is a
tendency to pronounce "pool" and "pull" identically, rhyming both
with "rule".

Another interesting pronounciation is "high-th" for "hight", which seems
common in the mid-west.  Was this introduced by a bad speller many years
ago?  Funny, the same people invariably pronounce "right" as "rite".

                                           Jim