On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:31:20 +0100, Mike Lyle
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Chris Croughton wrote:
>
>> The only people I have heard pronounce plural 's' as an unvoiced
>> ('hard') 's' have been Scandinavians (Norwegians and Swedes,
>> specifically; I haven't heard enough Finns, but Danes generally
>> follow the German way of pronouncing any single 's' as 'z' and double
>> 's' as a sharp ('hard') 's'). It can be heard in some of Abba's
>> songs, for instance. I don't know of any native English dialect
>> which pronounces it that way.
> [...]
>
> More and more Americans are doing it -- often unknown to themselves,
> so, I believe, it's still called "the Chicago s". Listen to George W,
> for example.
I'd rather not <g>. Is Chicago in a large Scandinavian area?
> Other English speakers, with a few dialectal exceptions,
> don't.
Dialects derived from Norse/Germanic immigrants or others as well?
Chris C
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