Re: USAGE: YAEPT:Re: Shavian: was Re: USAGE: Con-graphies

>daniel prohaska <danielprohaska@...> wrote:
>I'm sure other folk from other parts of England and Lowlands
Scotland >could come up with more examples. Maybe even from
Transatlantia->dialect areas like the Appalachians.

Another area rife with regionalisms is the Tidewater area of SE VA &
NE NC.  When I was home on vacation 2 weeks ago, I commented on my
sister-in-law's use of "clean," as in "It's clean down in NC."  I
would have said, "It's way down in NC."

She also says "stairsteps" instead of stairs or steps.

One regional pronounciation is that of "ou."  I say /{u/.  In that
region they say /Eu/ (I think).  Listen to a recording of Keeley
Smith when the lyrics contain words like about or house.  She is
from Norfolk.

The area, especially in VA, has become very cosmopolitan since the
days of signs that say, "Dogs and sailors keep off the grass."  But
it is still possible to find some who use the regionalisms.


BTW, I say /kIN/.

Charlie

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