Re: USAGE: (sorry YAEPT) /wIT/ or /wID/
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 8, 2006, 20:27 |
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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.
--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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