Date:  Sun, 22 Oct 1995 16:30:06 -0500

From:  Alan R Slotkin <ARS7950[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TNTECH.EDU>

Subject: Re: Drawrings



>  My business partner is an art therapist; when she gets an art therapy >

group together, she has us do "drawrings." The only other time I've heard > of

this pronunciation(and she has other linguistic ideosyncrasies that the >

locals here have a hard time understanding)is on a Saturday Night Live > sketch

about a little British boy named Simon who "likes to do drawrings." > My

business partner lived in NYC for the first forty-odd years of her life, > and

has since lived in Seattle and several locations in Arizona before com- > ing

to Vermont. Any idea if this is a regional idiosyncracy from anywhere, > or is





As an ex-NYer myself, I still in moments of inebriation or tiredness or

agitation add r to words that end in vowels, so that I am likely to say "drawr

me a picture." And I lived only 5 years of my current 5" and I lived only 5 of

my 51 yrs. in NYC.





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