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Re: USAGE: (sorry YAEPT) /wIT/ or /wID/

From:<li_sasxsek@...>
Date:Friday, December 8, 2006, 12:41
li [daniel prohaska] mi tulis la

> Hi Benct, > I don't know about Anglo-Irish, but USEnglish has [wIT] as an > alternate > pronunciation of [wID]. the latter form is listed first in "A > Pronouncing > Dictionary of American English" by Kenyon/Knott, but with the explicit > statement that [wIT] is not substandard. I think I've also > heard [w@T] in > Scottish English and Ulster Anglo-Irish has strong > connections with Scots > and Scottish English, so I wouldn't be surprised if this were > true of Bono's > speech. Though maybe he is Americanising his > pop-singing-accent like many > other UK pop artists and going for the US [wiT]-pronunciation.
It's [wIT] in my dialect.