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

Mark J. Reed skrev:
 > On 12/8/06, Jonathan Knibb
 > <jonathan_knibb@...> wrote:
 >> 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/.
 >>
 >
 > Which makes it likely that the lyric has [T] because Bono
 > was singing it in an "American accent". It's possibly a
 > feature of Irish English as well, but the rest of that
 > song at least sounds much more American than Irish.
 >

Funny I never noticed if my grandmother had [T] in this
item, since she otherwise picked up an American accent
during her 10+ years in Chicago in the 20's and early 30's
-- nor indeed in any other American I heard! My own [D] may
be due to British norms taught in Swedish scools, either
directly or lingering in my grandmother in spite of her
American acculturation.

And shame on Bono for pandering to American cultural
imperialism! ;-)

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