Wed 17 Jul, 2013 12:10 am - Hi. Have you heard people in the north-eastern regions of the U.S. inserting the schwa for emphasis? The emphatic form in (1) becomes disyllabic whereas the other one in (2) becomes trisyllabic.... (view)
Tue 16 Jul, 2013 11:38 pm - Helpful commnet! As you wrote in the previous reply, the word 'gurantee' /ˌgerənˈti:/ is emphatically pronounced with 'I gare-ON-tee ya . . .' in rural parts of Louisiana. I... (view)
Tue 16 Jul, 2013 06:56 pm - Many thanks for your helpful comment. Should there be a regional difference in making a monosyllabic word disyllabic in American English? That is to mean that Americans on the West Coast do so... (view)
