Re: USAGE: (sorry YAEPT) /wIT/ or /wID/
| From: | Jonathan Knibb <jonathan_knibb@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 8, 2006, 18:25 |
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Roger Mills wrote:
> in my rather long life I've seldom heard and (probably) never used
[wiD]
and Daniel Prohaska wrote:
> In England most people I've heard have /wID/ (or [wID]). I, myself
have /wID/ and /wID"aUt/.
Seconded. If somebody had said to me (in a British accent), "What does
the word /wIT/ mean?", I would probably have said I'd never heard of it.
I'm 30 and have lived in central and southern England all my life -
though shortly to move to the North, so expect lots of YAEPTs from me!
Jonathan.
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