Re: AX
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 15, 2000, 12:23 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Padraic Brown wrote:
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> > I think I may have heard dex a time or two, come to think of it.
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> Dillard says the AAVE form of "desk" is /dEs/, pl. /dEs@z/.
> /&ks/ is kind of anomalous for AAVE anyway,
> in that it goes against the usual tendency
> to simplify final consonant clusters.
>
> I myself say /&st/ for "asked", BTW.
Yeah, I do too. I don't think I know anyone would use /&skt/
unless they were consciously using formal language.
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