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Re: Iago, Mary-Land and schwa



On Thu, 06 Feb 1997 12:42:29 -0500, Marvin Katz wrote:

>>   Our only large city Baltimore, by the way, is pronounced BAWL-uh-m'r,
>> with a faint glottal stop substituted for the T. The American League
>> baseball team there is the Oreos.
>>   Have a nice day, hon.
>>
>Gee, down here in Mont-Gom-Ry County, we pronounce it Bawl-m'r and just
>call them the Os.

Funny, up here in New York City we call it South Philly, and damn, it
hasn't been the same since the A's left has it?


  Rafe T.
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