Re: Barbara Bush Re: ASCII convention

Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Last month she notoriously commented that the hurricane refugees in the
> Houston Astrodome were "probably better off" than they had been in their
> homes, because they were "underprivileged."

Well, better than calling them "poor", which would be very much
politically incorrect, I guess.

Which brings me to the American English pronunciation of "poor".
The last few times I heard that word mentioned on US TV shows it
sounded an awful lot like "pour". Is there a poor/pour merger going
on in General American or regionally?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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