[78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^

[David Lennick]

Most of Toronto can't cope with one particular street name without ADDING a 
consonant to it. "Eglinton" is pronounced the way it's spelled, except by just 
about every announcer and traffic reporter, who make it "Eglington". (And let's 
not get into Roncesvalles, Balliol, Baby Point, Delhi etc.)

Bud Black wrote:
> And do you pronounce the "R" in February?  

You betcha!

> Or is it "Feb-ya-wary"?
>  
> Bud 
>  
Nope, still only Jan-ya-wary.

dl

> -------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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