After we briefly covered the pronunciation of the word "sure", I heard a song on the radio where the singer said the word "surely" in a way that I described in class was a dialect of English. My typical pronunciation of "sure" sounds like "shir", while one student's pronunciation fit a different dialect that sounds more like "shoe-r". Well, listen to the below song to hear the singer pronounce"surely" like "shoe-rly". Then watch this other movie clip that makes a joke where "surely" is confused with the woman's name "Shirley" when a man says, "Surely, you can't be serious?" and the listener responds, "I am serious. And please don't call me Shirley." As if the man orignally asked, "Shirley, you can't be serious?" It's a classic slapstick comedy film, Airplane, which is actually a parody of a 60's film Airport. Check them both out.
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