[78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^ [fwd]

[Mike Harkin]

What did people get water out of:  tap, spout or spigot?

Mike in Plovdiv 


--- On Thu, 1/1/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 9:53 PM
> 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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