[78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^

[Michael Biel]

soundthink at aol.com wrote:
> Walter Brennan said "sodee-pop."
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>   

Ah, what a role model!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 9:02 pm
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^
>
>
>
> 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:
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>>>       
>>>> 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
>>>>>     
>>>>>