Re: dialectal diversity in English

>>["moUs.t 7 DIm tV"b&ki 4ItS foUks frVm "nar`Tk&r`"lajn7 "maj;tVz wEl bI
>>"b&:gVrz] [Dej sVr &int "s7DnVr`z]
>
>Most of them tobacco?-rich folks from North Carolina might as well be
>baggers?? They sure(? shouldn't it be /SVr/?) ain't southerners.
Mea cupla. Yes, it should have been [SVr`].

I've no real idea of the origin of the occassional shift of terminal [A],
[oU], [7] -> [i], but my parents' dialect had it, and my grandparents' even
more so.

I believe that everything else has been addressed in the astute posts from
others.

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