[78-L] Pronunciations and odd label misspellings

[Royal Pemberton]

Hmmmm....this was a girl of 19 I was describing (and not in months, but years).

On 1/10/09, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "Royal Pemberton" <ampex354 at gmail.com>
>>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.)
>>
> VERY common among children...who usually out-grow it! My twin younger
> brothers wound up assigned to a "speech therapist," since their bad habits
> reinforced each other's! It is all in how you hold your mouth whether you
> get "rrrrr" or "wwwww"...!
>
> ...stevenc
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