[78-L] Pronunciations and odd label misspellings

[Royal Pemberton]

I wonder where another strange speech quirk comes from.  I once knew a
person whose r's turned into a 'w' sound....as in saying 'I'm
fweezing!'--and no, she wasn't trying to do an Elmer Fudd.  (I never
asked her if she could say 'rrrascally rrrabbit' either.)

On 1/9/09, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Whipkey" <suuford at msn.com>
>> RE:  Tidewater VA     accents and  their   "Oat the hoase" preferences,
>> recall  the only other place I ever heard similar   pronunciations was
>> southeast Ontario,  how did that come about?
>>
> It happened in Ontario because the majority of the post-colonial Ontarians
> were Scots...and they tend to pronounce "Ow" more or less as "Oo!"
>
> ...stevenc
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