Thicknesse: Question on Pronunciation - All and Oil in Texas

[marion11111]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
> marion11111:
> > Back to poor old Sirius.  I can't find the post that shows the dictionary pronunciation 
> with the 
> > "r" in the second syllable (si ri us), but I've been trying for about ten minutes and 
> CANNOT 
> > make my mouth work that way.  It comes out all strange and choppy.
> 
> Geoff:
> Well, if you can pronounce 'serious' you're only shifting 'see' to 'si'.....
>

marion11111:
But see, that's the tricky part.  I don't say see-re-us.  i say seer-ree-us.  There's not a clean 
break where the "r" is - it blurs the two syllables which I suppose is why the two words come 
out the same for me.  It must be a midwestern drawl thing.

Have we beaten this horse to death yet?  Or is it hoarse?