Re: dialectal diversity in English

--- Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> wrote:
> Stone Gordonssen wrote:
>
> >> > [yVr "d{@diz "f{:mli dIn h{v noU "k7r`pEt_}
> "b{:gVrz
> >> > InIt_} dI:t]?
> >
> Your daddy's family don't have no carpet?? baggers??
> isn't it ??
Din't with or without the silent t is a Southern
contraction for Did Not. The "in it, did it?" part was
previously explained.

>
> >> [DVmz fA:tn w@rdz bVb]
> >
> Them's fighten words Bob.
>
> >> [&kSVli D@r wVz DIm folks frVm
> >> narT k@rlAn@ whVt fIt f@r d@ ju:njn bVt DImz
> tVrnkots
> >> nat b&gVrz]
> >
> Actually, there was those people [you pronounce the
> L in 'folk'?] from
> North Carolina that were fit for the Union but those
> turncoats not baggers??

Other aspect have benn explained in other posts, but,
yes, I do pronounce the L in folk, though I didn't use
the correct symbol.  The L I have there, and in other
word with "lk", like my family name, Walker, is a
"dark" L not the "light" L I wrote in the Q-Sampa. *g*


Adam

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