Re: Iago, Mary-Land and schwa

[Wendell Cochran atrypa@xxxxxxxx]

> Lee Hickling 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.
> >
> Gee, down here in Mont-Gom-Ry County, we pronounce it Bawl-m'r and just
> call them the Os.
>
> --Marv Katz
>
When I lived in Chevy Chase (in the '70s) I understood that Bulmer vs
Bawlmer betrayed the speaker's neighborhood.

The expert is or ought to be H.L. Mencken . . . .

Wendell Cochran
West Seattle