[78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^

[Bud Black]

And do you pronounce the "R" in February?  Or is it "Feb-ya-wary"?
 
Bud 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: David Lennick
Date: 1/2/2009 12:09:20 AM
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: Re: [78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^
 
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
>>>>>
>>>>>
 
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