Re: Country Names -- Local Pronunciations

Joe
> From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
> > And Rosta scripsit:
> > > The evidence of the British National Corpus is that there are 935
> > > instances of "I guess" per 100m words of British English
> > > This compares with 6840 instances of "I suppose" and 973 instances of
> > > "I reckon". So I see no grounds not to see it as part of British
> English
> > > You might try clicking on that url to see how foreign the sentences
> > > seem to you
> >
> > "I reckon" I recognize as common in Southern American English, though
> > not part of my dialect except as a mock-ruralism.
>
> "I reckon" is quite common in my dialect...I'm not sure whether it's an
> Americanism,
I was supposing, perhaps wrongly, that _I reckon_ is a Briticism. My
point then was that if _I guess_ has the same frequency as a Briticism
with similar meaning then it too must be reasonably entrenched in BrE.

--And.