Mark J. Reed wrote:
> One of my favorite pop-cultural misemphases occurs in the movie Star
> Trek III, when McCoy - in the thrall of Spock's katra - attempts to
> book illegal travel to the Genesis planet..... McCoy's response:
>
> "Permit? I don't need any damned permits! How can you get a damned
> permit to do a damned illegal thing?!"
>
> Throughout the above he consistently says /p@r'mIt/, rather than
> /'p@r.mIt/. And at least IML, the noun is always the latter; the
> former is the verb.
>
Like weekénd, could that possibly be some peculiar Anglicism (Scottism?)--
or somebody's idea of a Scottish accent?