Christopher quoting me and following up: >>I think it is accordingly fair to exempt this >>pronunciation from scorn. > >How about my pronunciation of "robutt" and "TROMbone"? Can I tell my >daughter not to laugh at me any more, as my pronunciations are now >exempt? Can I? Eh? Can I?
Now ain't there a difference between an alternate pronunciation consistently used by millions of people in a particular quite large geographic region, as I think I tried to point out in the verbiage before what you clipped, on the one hand, and how you on your lonesome pronounce a word, on the other? I surely thought that was the general gist of things. However, I also say TROMbone sometimes, even though I play one, and also every now and then, UMbrella, both of which induce spousal laughter. Maybe millions DO say TROMbone, and we should call your daughter on that one. But in any case, she should continue to laugh at "robutt" without a doubt. Stu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
