Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ - : etymology ?

On Oct 7, 3:49 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:18:42 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
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On Oct 7, 2:56 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:48:41 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
<gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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in sci.lang:
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[<woz>:]
You said it would rhyme with <Oz>, which is to say it
would be pronounced like standard <was>.
No. <Oz> is [Az]; no common U.S. pronunciation of <was> has
[A].
You're mad, sir. "Was" and "Oz" are a perfect rhyme.
(Whatever symbol you choose to use to represent the
vowel.)

They aren't. It isn't the Wizard of Uz. It *is* 'we wuz
robbed'.

Maybe in rural outskirts of Cleveland.

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