Re: Spelling pronunciations (was: rhotic miscellany)
| From: | B. Garcia <madyaas@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 8, 2004, 21:37 |
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On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 08:54:15 -0500, John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
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> /@gejn(st)/ seems British to me, and
> /Et/ comes across as an archaic vulgarism, the sort of thing my father
> (1904-1993) said when he was being funny.
My grandmother (born 1920) was raised on a farm in the north eastern
corner of Kansas, and she often says /Et/ where I say /ejt/. To me the
use of /Et/ has a Kansan quality to it, much like using /wArS/ for
/wAS/
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