From: Brian M. Scott Message: 63848 Date: 2009-04-18
At 1:49:03 PM on Saturday, April 18, 2009, dgkilday57 wrote:
> I haven't heard <sherbet> pronounced with one /r/ for 40
> years; [...]
<shudder>
That one's even worse than ['kju:,pAn]. I do still hear
(what I consider) the correct pronunciation, and both AHD4
and and M-W Online still list it first.
> The auslaut just didn't sound normal, apparently.
Seems unlikely to be *just* that, given <turbot>, <carpet>,
<limpet>, <strumpet>, <trumpet>, <crumpet>, <surfeit>.