Date:  Mon, 23 Jan 1995 14:19:39 EST

From:  Vicki Rosenzweig <murphy!acmcr!vr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UUNET.UU.NET>

Subject: Re: TV and dialect



This New Yorker has (as far as I can remember) always pronounced

tour to rhyme with lore rather than lure (in my speech, the difference

is that there's a glide after the l in lure; the vowels sound the same

to me). I'm 31, born and raised in Queens County; my mother immigrated

to New York (from Germany, via France) as a girl, and my father was

raised in the Bronx.



Vicki Rosenzweig

vr%acmcr.uucp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]murphy.com

New York, NY