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).
>