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Forums => English & Linguistics => Topic started by: Noemon on May 27, 2005, 09:49:09 AM
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Last night I was talking with a positive acquaintance of mine (there really isn't a good term for somebody that you like a lot but don't know all that well yet, is there.), and noticed that something in her speech pattern was sounding strange to my ear. I paid attention to it, and discovered that when she said the word "very", she pronounced it "ver", dropping the vowel at the end and finishing the word with what seemed like a glottal stop. Jon Boy, ever run into this one before? She grew up in Detroit if that provides any kind of clue.
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Sounds kinda' Val' to me....
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Interesting. Unfortunately, I've never noticed anything like that before. I wish I had had a few more classes in dialectology (actually, I wish they had offered a few more classes in dialectology). Hard to say if it's a dialect thing or just a personal thing. Common words are prone to shortening and losing stress.