Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)

--- Roger Mills skrzypszy:

>The [Oj] is interesting-- that is?/used to be the sort-of upper-class East
>Coast pronunciation of Standard [aj] (variously referred to as the
>Larchmont Lockjaw or  Main Line Malocclusion).  I heard it from classmates
>at hoity-toity boarding-school half a century ago (aargh).
Funny... It belongs to the dialect of the region where I was born, but
nobody here would *ever* call it posh. It rather sounds rural and farmer-
like.

Jan