Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Roger Mills wrote:

> Tommie Powell wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> >> Tommie L Powell wrote:
> >> > My people (Washington State immigrants from
> >> > eastern Oklahoma) said [ajdi:] for "idea" but it
> >> > meant a proposal or intention (not a notion).
> >>
> >> /hej, aj @v a grejt ajdi:/
> >> is an example of what I'd say...
> >>
> >Very good example!  And a sentence such as
> >"That's my idea of heaven" made no sense in my
> >people's dialect.  Instead, you'd have to say
> >"That's my notion of heaven."
> >--Tommie
>
> This pronunciation has been around for quite a while; probably from well
> before I encountered it in "Western" stories  of the  WW II era and Grade B
> western movies -- definitely rustic dialect, usually used for comic effect
> (Gabby Hayes might say it, never Roy or Gene).
>
I picked it up while living in Quebec.

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Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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