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- From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Subject: Jewelry
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.143323.18706@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:33:23 GMT
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- I'm curious to know how people tend to pronounce the word "jewelry."
- I tend to say eithere "jule-ree" or "juwul-ree," though I hear many
- people, especially here in New York, saying "ju-luh-ree."
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- I don't know if it's that they get jewelry (what a jeweller makes)
- mixed up with jewellery (the craft of a jeweller), but still, many
- people, I believe, would pronounce the words the same. I wonder
- what we would get if we asked a random sampling of Americans to
- say:
- "The jewellery on this jewelry is exquisite."
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