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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 2002
Page
5
Knight Ridder reports Harvard students host the Dialect Survey, inviting participation to map regional language differences. More than 9,000 respondents share pronunciations and terms such as Florida and soda or sub versus hoagie, revealing varied speech across regions.
A reader survey reports how Americans pronounce common words. Key findings include 68 percent saying coupon as coo pon and 30 percent as kyoo pon. creek pronounced with seek by 89 percent and with sica by 4 percent in the South. lawyer with lover by 74 percent and lawyer by 21 percent. pajamas with mama in 53 percent and jam in 45 percent in the Upper Midwest. poem with two syllables by 68 percent and one syllable as pome by 33 percent. route rhymes hoot for 31 percent and out for 18 percent with some using both.
The Powerball Christmas Day drawing could yield nearly 300 million with no winner on Saturday. The prize rose to 217.8 million from Wednesday to Saturday, with a single lump sum around 92 million after taxes. Nebraska officials note sales and holiday ads may push results higher. past Christmas winners include a 1998 295.7 million jackpot in Ohio.
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