Re: Other Vulgar Latins?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 1:10 |
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On 2/21/06, Adam Walker <carrajena@...> wrote:
> Mine. [E] before [n] goes to [I]. That's a standard
> feature of Texan. Pin and pen ore homophones as are
> finned and fend and hundreds of others.
Not just Texan, Southern 'Murkin all the way east to the Carolinas. I
well remember our teachers in middle Georgia drilling into us the
spelling difference between the /pIn/ you write with and the /pIn/ you
stick things with.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>