Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:18:58 -0700

From: Peter McGraw pmcgraw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CALVIN.LINFIELD.EDU

Subject: Re: waft and SAE



Hmm! For this Oregonian, it's "wahft" and "immerzhun".



Peter



On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Allen Maberry wrote:



For me, in Seattle and in Portland, "waft" rhymes with "raft" and

"immersion" is pronounced with an /sh/.

Allen

maberry[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]u.washington.edu



On Sun, 21 Jul 1996, Benjamin Barrett wrote:



Don't know if this is of any use or no, but...a postscript to my previous

message...



Shortly after dispatching my previous message, I received a call from my

mother and I asked her how she would pronounce w-a-f-t. She gave the wahft

pronounciation, so mine likely comes from reading and using analogy to words

like raft.



I happened to use the word "immersion, and she says "immersion" with a /zh/

while I use /sh/, so there may be a generation gap. (I have often wondered

whether Seattle is still going through a sorting out of pronunciations as it

has a large non-native pronounciation.)



Benjamin Barrett

gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ix.netcom.com

gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]gnn.com