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

SE = Southeast.  NE = Northeast.  Standard English compass-direction labels.

VA and NC are states in the USA.  VA = Virginia, NC = North Carolina.


On 6/11/06, Jean-François Colson <fa597525@...> wrote:
> SE? VA? NE? NC? What's all this?
>
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> From: "caeruleancentaur" <caeruleancentaur@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 7:22 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Re: 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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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>