Re: OT: English and front rounded vowels

On 2007-12-10 ROGER MILLS wrote:
> In South Dakota, everyone used [jA] "yah"? a lot, to the dismay of
> our teachers. Hold-over no doubt from the plentiful
> German/Scandanavian heritage. (I think my sister and I still use it,
> probably picked it up from peers-- still, one gd.father was
> Swiss-German, but I don't recall my mother ~aunts using it, though
> they probably did.)
I find myself using [ja?] (my usual casual pronunciation of
the Swedish word, more formally [jA:] of course!) a lot
when speaking English.  It probably a reflexive grunt more
than a word.



/BP 8^)>
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