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- From: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
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- Subject: Re: Jewelry
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.145844.1005@quantime.co.uk>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 14:58:44 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.143323.18706@news.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul24.143323.18706@news.columbia.edu>,
- gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
- > 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."
-
- I say "jooelry" if I'm being careful.
- Sometimes I hear myself saying "joolery".
-
- > 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'm not aware of this (plausible) distinction.
- In my experience (backed up by Chambers, by the way),
- "jewelry" and "jewellery" both mean "jewels in general".
-
- It doesn't seem much of a stretch for someone who pronounces
- "jewel" "jool" to pronounce "jewellery" "joolery".
-
- > I wonder
- > what we would get if we asked a random sampling of Americans to
- > say:
- > "The jewellery on this jewelry is exquisite."
-
- Who cares what Americans say? :-)
- In Foley's in downtown Houston Texas this afternoon,
- I saw a card with "jewerly" written on it. So there.
- --
- Roger Phillips roger@quantime.co.uk
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