To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Early apple, Liveland Raspberry
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 06:57:15 -0700 (PDT)
This gave me more pause than most of what I've read on the list. I've lived
in s.WI
(a county or 2 away from Steve's place) all my life, interested in the
different
accents but never thought much about this one. word The R & the A are more
important, the A sounding close to the A in Yeah; the S is almost immaterial.
Usually closest to Rass, but Zs are often only implied by use of an S sound.
More interesting, what you hear from the older & more rural people is "pick
berries"
or "berry picking", w/o mention of kind because of coure you know what's in
season.
--- loneroc <> wrote:
> ...Which brings a question to mind. Do you pronounce the name of the
> bramble
> Rasp--berry or Razz--berry? Around here everyone says razzberry I think.
> My grandmother, born and raised in southern Minnesota, always said
> Rasp--berry or was it Wrasse--berry? I've taken to pronouncing it
> Rasp--berry of late, much to my son's chagrin.
>
> Steve Herje, Lone Rock, WI USDA Zone 3-4
>
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