*** Quoting Alex Polevoy from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


 CS> d'u is a very interesting phonetic there!

AP> wow

 CS>   Totally understandable
 CS> though I've Hnever seen it 'written' that way.

AP> I glad that I could impress you.

Hehehehe.  I liked it though!

 CS>   Du'Ya would match my
 CS> 'accent' better but i'm Hfrom the south.  Maybe 'Doo'Ya' might be
 CS> clearer on it.

AP> oh! your accent is not trivial for average american?

Well, the USA isnt as big as Russia (and far smaller than the old USSR) but
¨it's big enough that 'accents' are distinct in some places.  Before the
days of ¨TV, the accents were more pronounced.  It's still possible to find
2 sets who ¨have trouble understanding one another's spoken words.

I remember in my early school years, just after we moved to another state,
¨missing a spelling test word.  The teacher asked us to spell 'root'.  The
¨sentance was about driving up a 'root'.  I spelled 'root' on the paper. 
She ¨meant 'route' (r-oww-t is best I can do to explain how that would be
¨phonetically).  It's just that in the area we moved to, the accent said it
as ¨'root'.  No, I didnt get the points back on the spelling test ;-)  I
did get ¨personally a bit happy when she went to the dictionary and the
phonetics trying ¨to prove her pronounciation was 'the standard' and she
found she was wrong and ¨her's was a tertiary but acceptable one.

You'd have little trouble understanding me speaking, because my 'southrun
¨akscent' is now after 20 years in the military, fairly mild.  Give me a
few ¨beers though and I start to move 'south of the mason-dixon' (meaning I
get a ¨deeper south in accent) and you may have to ask me to repeat a thing
or two.

                                       xxcarol

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