[78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^

[David Lennick]

Michael Biel wrote:
> 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.
> 
"Youse want more beer?" Thus inquired the waitress at a steak house in Oshawa 
(just a half hour east of Toronto as you know). "Youse" is heard in many medium 
sized towns in Ontario. In Buffalo and along the Niagara frontier, any word 
containing a short "a" has an "ay" preceding it..i.e. Amherst is pronounced 
"Ayamherst". I remembered this the other week when I took an item into the 
Radio Shack repair depot for Graham Newton, and told them his name..which they 
promptly typed up as "Gram".

> 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. 

But Nat sang about reindeers, and carols sung by require.

dl
> 
> 
>> 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
>>>>>     
>>>>>