Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 00:21:33 -0500

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

Subject: Bedroom /sut/s



The question about (bedroom) /sut/s brought back a flash...I grew up in New

York, and the pronunciation was totally unfamiliar to me, until I moved to

Gainesville, FL, where it was the standard, at least in TV commercials. It

used to drive me nuts. I mean, dialect variation is, as some of our students

up here say, tres cool. But...I suspect that for all of us there are some

forms or expressions that have that effect on us. Or maybe it was just the

north Florida local tv commercials...No more. I associate suite=/sut/ with

north Florida, and don't recall it from Texas (Austin).



Alice Faber