Re: CHAT: Cockney Orkish as she is spoken.
| From: | Raymond A. Brown <raybrown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 24, 1999, 6:59 |
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At 6:25 pm -0500 23/2/99, Steg Belsky wrote:
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>So in Cockney the words "death" and "deaf" sound the same, like the way
>some rappers say it?
Exactly - they are homophones [dEf] in the speech of probably the majority
of my students, whether white, Asian or black, who use the south west
London vernacular.
In my native Sussex when I was young, one used to come across occasionally
the hypercorrection [dET] meaning 'deaf'. I don't know whether that still
survives :)
Ray.