Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

> New Yawk accent?!  Nah.
> 
> I grew up around Los Angeles and now live around Phoenix, and 
> without any exception I've observed, folks here pronounce 
> "orange" to exactly rhyme with "door hinge".  I've 
> occasionally heard the "bar hinge" variation, but always 
> associated it with "east of the Rockies" dialects...y'know, 
> people who say "Oil" is a man's name, and "Earl" is a lubricant.  ;)
> 
> Enlighten me.  I'm a strictly "west of the Rockies" kinda guy.

New Jersey is a dividing point for aar-inge/oor-inge in my observation.
South and west, they say oor-inge. From the central part of the state,
and north and east, it's au-ringe or aar-inge as you head north and west
(even to the northern midwest and plains states)

-m@