Re: [tied] Re: -var and Czech breweries

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 35381
Date: 2004-12-07

At 1:36:03 PM on Tuesday, December 7, 2004, g wrote:

>>> something like Budweiser [American: 'b&dwaIz&]. :-)

>> American ['b&dwaIzR] or [b&d], actually. (Pomoi.)

> Oops, sorry, I was in a hurry, so I forgot that
> Midwest Amer. [R] (which isnt' typical of Big Apple,
> is it?). :-)

Don't think so, though it's a place I've always been happy
to avoid. But the [R] isn't just Midwestern: in my
experience it's found in most non-southern U.S. varieties.
('Course in the vernacular it's southern [b&:d],
non-southern [b&d] :-)

Brian