Re: USAGE: Weird dialectal stuff
| From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 9, 2000, 17:50 |
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fortytwo@gdn.net writes:
>That's exactly like Southern American English before nasals, "pin" and
>"pen" are both /pIn/. In this Fresno dialect, does this happen for
>*all* /I/ and /E/? Are "pet" and "pit" homophones for him?
Hmm, i'm not quite sure if it is. Anyway, I will ask him to see what he
thinks (he's still around school, and has an email account just like
everyone else at my school does).
>
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