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Lingerie

Listening to the original radio production of "Miracle on 34th St.", on the Old Time Radio Hour, live at wamu.org from 7 to 11 ET on Sundays, which includes an ad for Lux soap, and the announcer pronounced lingerie as if it ended in ee, which it does in French. Probably from the 50's.
The first syllable had already been defrenchified, and was pronounced lawn.

Posters should say where they live, and for which area they are asking questions. I was born and then lived in Western Pa. 10 years
Indianapolis 7 years
Chicago 6 years
Brooklyn, NY 12 years
Baltimore 26 years
  

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org from 7 to 11 ET on Sundays, which includes an ad for Lux soap, and the announcer pronounced lingerie as if it ended in ee, which it does in French. Probably from the 50's. The first syllable had already been defrenchified, and was pronounced lawn.

— Clive

  • org from 7 to 11 ET on Sundays, which includes an ad for Lux soap, and the announcer pronounced lingerie as if it ended in ee, which it does in French.
  • Probably from the 50's.
  • The first syllable had already been defrenchified, and was pronounced lawn.
  • Posters should say where they live, and for which area they are asking questions.
  • I was born and then lived in Western Pa.
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Listening to the original radio production of "Miracle on 34th St.", on the Old Time Radio Hour, live at wamu.org from 7 to 11 ET on Sundays, which includes an ad for Lux soap, and the announcer pronounced lingerie as if it ended in ee, which it does in French. Probably from the 50's.
The first syllable had already been defrenchified, and was pronounced lawn.

Posters should say where
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[nq:1]Listening to the original radio production of "Miracle on 34th St.", on the Old Time Radio Hour, live at wamu.org ... That's how I pronounce ithe ending of the word, too. I live in Toronto, but I am from Britain. Clive[/nq]
I'm not sure what the OP's problem is. How else would you pronounce the ending of "lingerie"?
As for the beginning, my 'Franglais' pronunciation is more like "lan
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[nq:2]Listening to the original radio production of "Miracle on 34th ... live right now? (Didn't I ask you this before? )[/nq]
Baltimore. I guess the sig needs fine tuning. I might have asked about the word before. If so, I'm following up with how at least one person pronounced it in the US, probably NYC but maybe California, in the 1950s.
[nq:1]I'm not sure what the OP's problem is.[/nq]
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[nq:1]Listening to the original radio production of "Miracle on 34th St.", on the Old Time Radio Hour, live at wamu.org from 7 to 11 ET on[/nq]
That's "The Big Broadcast". I've been listening to it regularly for decades on 88.5 FM. The host, Ed Walker, plays "Miracle on 34th Street" every year a little early this time and every year I think "I've heard this enough times already" but then I lis
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[nq:2]Listening to the original radio production of "Miracle on 34th ... Hour, live at wamu.org from 7 to 11 ET on[/nq]
[nq:1]That's "The Big Broadcast". I've been listening to it regularly for[/nq]
Oh, yeah. Shame on me.
[nq:1]decades on 88.5 FM. The host, Ed Walker, plays "Miracle on 34th Street" every year a little early this time and every year I think[/nq]
I heard it last year
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