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

What about the [wIt] characterising New Yawka English?

On 12/8/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote:
> 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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> Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
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