Date:    Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:47:43 -0500
<br>From:    Robert Kelly  kelly[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BARD.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: flattening
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<br>a query on Pittsburgh:
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<br>a dear friend of mine from the outskirts (SW) of that city always realizes
<br>gold as Gould, and goal (as in hockey) is homophonous with ghoul.  Is that
<br>idiolect, or common, or basic to the city or its purlieus?  Since fifth is
<br>fift in her speech (as in my university professor friends from eastern
<br>Ohio), matching the sa:t for South of the posting, I'm led to ask.
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<br>Thanks.
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<br>RK
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<br>Robert Kelly
<br>Division of Literature and Languages, Bard College
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<br>On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, David Bergdahl wrote:
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<br>  Pittsburgh is famous for its monophthongal versions of {AU} esp. on
<br>  the [sa:t saId]; the shibboleth {downtown} is used to discriminate
<br>  true south-siders from pretenders.
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