Re: USAGE: Dialects WAS Re: USAGE: Glottal stop for /t/

Clint Jackson Baker scripsit:

> Now I was thinking of two things in the local dialect
> here (southern Indiana) that are *not* present in my
> speech (I'm not going for the X-SAMPA here, sorry)
> --"drawl" and "drawling" in place of |draw| and
> |drawing| (more common with children but not
> exclusively)
Part of the Mock Turtle's school curriculum:

        "Well, there was Mystery," the Mock Turtle replied, counting
        off the subjects on his flippers, "--Mystery, ancient and modern,
        with Seaography:  then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old
        conger-eel, that used to come once a week:  HE taught us
        Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils."

> --this reminds me of the stereotypical
> Englander saying "drawring"
Very common here in New York City, too:  /'drOr\IN/.

> --"drownd" and "drownded" in place of |drown| and
> |drowned|
My wife, when not being careful, says /dr\Aund/ for both
present and past, but she doesn't say /dr\Aund1d/,
except when singing "Deep Blue Sea":

        It was Willie
        What got drownded
        In the deep blue sea.

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