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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (66)	1/2/1998 10:39:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) of 4710

A'-dult is the preferred pronounciation with a-dult' being an acceptable second. However, it's not really an 'uh' sound; it's a schwa, and doggone it, I couldn't find the IPA symbol for that in the list of ASCII codes, which would have been so impressive! It's an upside down e though. Dale?? Don't you think the above might be an example of regional dialect? In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginny, we say "Foul" with a very broad 'a' (as in 'cat')and in two syllables_(Is that the correct use of the pause,Dale?) sort of "Faaa-yowl". It's incomprehensible to Yankees. And how do you say 'roof'(long u sound or oo as in 'look'?) or 'new'? (nyew or boot?) Edwin Newman did write A Civil Tongue, as well as Strickly Speaking. I have them both and they are very clever. He would probably approve of this thread as he writes, "If American English is to be saved, it will, in my view, have to be saved by individuals, or by small guerilla groups that refuse to accept nonsense." Do we qualify as a small guerilla group?

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