Re: USAGE: Weird dialectal stuff

fortytwo@gdn.net writes:
>Not really clear, but I suspect it's just like the South, where they're
>the same before nasals.  (Speaking of which, I only recently discovered
>that my mother - originally from New York/Kansas - uses /pEn/, and yet
>I'd never noticed until a few months ago!)
You're probably right, in that he does that before nasals. Anyway, It's an
interesting dialect. I can barely distinguish it, because it's close
enough to my own accent (of course, I don't have one, you all do  =)  ),
except for that one slight difference. I never really picked up on it
until he told me about it.


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