Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 01:06:11 -0700

From: Rudy Troike RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET

Subject: Re: [u]/[ju]



Natalie,

Everyone will first tell you to check PEAS first, or you might look

for a quick-shot at the McDavid supplement to Nelson Francis' grammar (the

summary charts actually prepared by E. Bagby Atwood, though uncredited).

I'm a /yuw/ speaker (I don't like them furrin IPA symbols), but have been

amused at newscasters who get things mixed up and report the /nyuwn nuwz/.

I thought that was a hypercorrection, but have found some of my east-coast

students who have this (to me) reversal as a norm.

Rudy Troike