Re: Re : Fw: Sent to me from Georgia

Nik Taylor wrote:

> "Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> > He has assured me, with only a tad of sarcasm, that the best method
> > of communicating when trying to get gas in rural areas is some sort of
> > improvised sign language, because the English they speak is entirely
> > unintelligible.
>
> My uncle and aunt ran upon an interesting sample of rural Kansan talk,
> hearing a man ask something like
>
> [?aw mV fO D& ?ir @ ?Orn] or something along those lines
>
> I'm not sure if they were exaggerating it or not.  The question was "How
> much for that ear of corn?"
I find it rather hard to believe that *initial* stops would be
reduced to glottal stops.  Medial and final, that I can believe
easily -- but initial?

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