Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:57:05 -0400

From: "David Bergdahl (614) 593-2783" BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: Re: Greasy et al.



Syracuse. Many folks I knew growing up (in Tennessee) and other

Southerners used the voiced fricate here. Network sportscasters

seem all to use the s.



When I was an undergrad at Syr Univ there was a real split between the upstaters

who pronounced it [ser[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]kus] and we downstaters who said [sir[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]kuz] with [AT SYMBOL GOES HERE] =

schwa. I never thought of the -s- as distinctive: I focused on the vowel before

/r/.



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David Bergdahl BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Associate Professor of English Language and Literature

Ohio University / Athens fax: (614) 593-2818

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