At 17:48 -0400 2004-05-31, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> > Wentworth's American Dialect dictionary attests [rudZ] in
>> northwestern Virginia (Shenandoah Valley). Not the other two though.
>> I didn't know the word "loge" myself.
>
>You didn't go to NYC movie palaces in your yout'!

I did not.

>Loew's 175th Street had "Loges," whatever they were.

Private boxes or enclosures in (18th century French) theatres.

>And however you pronounced them.

I guess I would say [loZ].
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