[78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^

[Michael Biel]

David Lennick wrote:
> I seen a fillum in the thee-AY-ter.
>
> dl
>
>   

And did you have a co-cola?  When I moved here the guy across the street 
always said co-cola.  I said "No, it is co-ca-cola."  He replied, 
"That's what I said, co-cola."  And when I lived in Missouri I went to a 
cook-out at my landlord's place where he asked me if I wanted any 
sodeee-pop.  I thought he was kidding around and making fun of his own 
accent, but then I heard him the entire afternoon talking about sodeee-pop.

People often talk about the impossibility of understanding rap and 
ghetto-speak.  And Stan Freberg made fun of the R&B singers purposefully 
mumbling in Sha-boom.  Yet I felt at the time that so many Black singers 
were perfect in their enunciation, like Nat King Cole and even Frankie 
Lyman, much more than many White singers.  Elvis mumbled.  Fats Domino 
enunciated. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com


> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>   
>> We won't even get into nuclear as "nu-cle-ar" (this one's correct) and 
>> "nu-clear" or "nu-cu-ler".
>> I like nuculer, myself.
>> Not!
>> M
>>
>> *******
>>
>> martha wrote:
>>     
>>> nooz is fine, according to the dictionary and most people I've ever heard. So is 
>>> pomm.
>>> 'nee-ooz' sounds like an affectation to me, unless the speaker is not US American.
>>>
>>> My family came from "CarNAYgie", PA,  where "fill-um" was the norm! Always 
>>> "automobile", too - never "car".
>>>
>>> And why do both the outgoing & incoming Presidents have trouble with 'z' at the end 
>>> of words? Usually they use "sss" : jobsss , ideasss, etc.  That and dumbin' down the 
>>> endin' to most "-ing" wordsss shouldn't be done by people from Ivy League colleges. 
>>> Collegesss, pardon me.  :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Malcolm Rockwell" <malcolm at 78data.com>
>>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:14 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Dnjchi at aol.com wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> In a message dated 1/1/2009 11:11:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>>>> banjobud at cfl.rr.com writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey, I  dunno about you, but I pronounce the "L" in calm, palm and balm.   I
>>>>> don't say "comm, pomm or bomm.  But then I spent a few years as a  radio
>>>>> announcer.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Doesn't always help.  There's a newscaster on NPR radio that  repeatedly says
>>>>> "NPR Nooz."
>>>>> Don Chichester
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> *******
>>>>
>>>> Yes, "nooz" instedda "neews." Uck.
>>>> But what really drives me nuts is Wed-nes-day!
>>>> Wensday?
>>>> M
>>>>     
>>>>         
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