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

SE? VA? NE? NC? What's all this?

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From: "caeruleancentaur" <caeruleancentaur@...>
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> >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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