Re: USAGE: h&ppi? (was: RE: Importance of stress)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 27, 2000, 21:22 |
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And Rosta wrote:
> /I/ or [I] for happY has a weird distribution. RP and most of the north
> of England, though not coastal cities (Liverpool, Newcastle, ?Hull), but
> also parts of the USA
The Deep South, and older AAVE, for sure -- in a private mail to Ray I mentioned
/dZImI ka:t@/, U.S. president 1976-80. His father or grandfather, BTW,
probably called himself /k<j>A:t@/!
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