Re: CHAT: Cockney Orkish as she is spoken.

Raymond A. Brown wrote:

> 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 :)
Many African-American and Southern white speakers in the U.S. have
the same overcorrection in "trough" /trOT/, where the spelling does
not help.

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)