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Re: Of accents & dialects (was: Azurian phonology)

From:Michael Poxon <mike@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 23:12
 a "Loke" is a small lane not suitable for any sort of venicular access
(other than a pedal cycle). There is a named loke just off the main Norwich
ring road, near County Hall, on the outskirts of the city.
Mike
>>That's certainly the case here (Norfolk, East Anglia) where, for instance, >>all verb paradigms are regularised ("He say" for both "he says" and "he >>said") and we have "to have just now" as a sort of recent past "I just now >>see him comin' 'long the loke") > > Until "loke" that looks a lot like AAVE (Afro-American Vernacular > English). >