Peter H. Granzeau writes:
>vocabulary. The example used was the word "bus", which New Yorkers now
>pronounce "boss"--something that wasn't true 50 years ago.
We do? Nowhere I've ever seen.
We pronounce it "bus". b-uh-s.
"boss" is pronounced " b-awe-s.
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