End of ADS-L Digest - 22 Jan 1995 to 23 Jan 1995

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There are 31 messages totalling 769 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. tour, tore (3)

 2. You guys

 3. TV and dialect (4)

 4. 2 pl (10)

 5. Unsubscribe (2)

 6. 2pl

 7. poor and pour (was Re: TV and dialect) (2)

 8. "Coke" (4)

 9. Cajuns & TV

 10. Coke...NOT

 11. Query: Writing Centers and Writing Lab Set Ups

 12. Arabic phonetics



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Date:  Tue, 24 Jan 1995 00:04:26 -0500

From:  ALICE FABER <faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HASKINS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: tour, tore



Mike Picone asks about the pronunciation of _tour_ to rhyme with _lore_ rather

than _lure_. I generally think of this as the _poor_, _pore_, _pour_ question.

When I first took intro to linguistics, I was quite shocked that there seemed

to be people for whom these aren't homonyms, and hard pressed to figure out

just *how* they might be different. Not to mention how _horse_ and _hoarse_

could be pronounced differently. On the other hand, it's perfectly obvious to

me how _merry_, _marry_, and _mary_ *must* be different. Go figure.



Like Vicki Rosenzweig, I'm more-or-less a New Yorker. But I can't believe this

is *just* a NY kinda thing.



Alice Faber

Faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]haskins.yale.edu