Eating Leps

[Grkovich, Alex]

Boston, What do you mean Boston? People don't talk funny here. By the way,
I'll have a slice of PIZZER and a BEAH. Eh-AH!!!

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ron Gatrelle [SMTP:gatrelle at tils-ttr.org]
> Sent:	Friday, July 27, 2001 4:10 PM
> To:	mbpi at juno.com
> Cc:	Leps-l
> Subject:	Re: Eating Leps
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <mbpi at juno.com>
> To: <LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu>
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 11:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Eating Leps
> 
> 
> many hairy snips
> 
> > As for the debate on Latin pronunciation:  I studied classical Latin in
> > high school, also "just a few years ago..." (tee-hee), and I was taught
> > the pronunciation for "ae" was a long "i."  However, when I studied
> > systematics in college, the "ae" was pronounced like a long "e" in every
> > class I took, regardless of who was teaching it.  Anything ending in an
> > "eae" was pronounced like TWO long "e's."  Go figure!
> >
> > Mary Beth Prondzinski
> >
> 
> I have heard that the "ae" at the beginning of a word is pronounced long
> "e" but at the end long "a"?  But what I really want to know is why all
> the
> common names are pronounced so differently in Boston?
> 
> By the way, old Charlestonian pronunciations are very similar to that of
> old Boston. When I move here over 30 years ago it was heard a lot - it is
> now a disappearing dialect. For example "beer" is pronounced the exact
> same
> way Charleston  and Boston. Out and about in old money downtown Charleston
> is oot and aboot.
> 
> Ron
> 
> PS    It must be raining a lot of other places too, or we are not getting
> out butter around much.
> 
> 
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