Nostalgia Rebuke
Sep. 24th, 2019 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowFor a long time, I wanted a copy of Neil Diamond's first album, but I couldn't find the CD anywhere. It turns out that it was never released on CD. However, recently the contents of his first two albums were released on a single CD, "The Bang Years", which I now have and am listening to.
Just a quick note: one of the songs is "Red Red Wine", a song about a guy who, having broken up with his lady friend, has fallen into the bottle. Not particularly interesting, except for the fact that he pronounces "wine" as "whine", with the full voiceless approximant (the one that some people use to distinguish, e.g., "whither" from "wither").
I can see no explanation for this except, maybe, overcorrection. (That's the same phenomenon that produces "Missourah", in an overreaction to "tobaccy" and such.) It just sounds weird.
Just a quick note: one of the songs is "Red Red Wine", a song about a guy who, having broken up with his lady friend, has fallen into the bottle. Not particularly interesting, except for the fact that he pronounces "wine" as "whine", with the full voiceless approximant (the one that some people use to distinguish, e.g., "whither" from "wither").
I can see no explanation for this except, maybe, overcorrection. (That's the same phenomenon that produces "Missourah", in an overreaction to "tobaccy" and such.) It just sounds weird.
