Re: USAGE: -i/yse vs -i/yze in England (and what the heck, NZ too).

James Campbell wrote:

> ** Presumably hypercorrection of the "th" pronounced as /f/ in non-RP
> southern British English. Glorious.
This is also characteristic of AAVE (at the ends of words only), and
many white Southerners hypercorrectly say /tROT/ for "trough", where the
spelling does not help (compare "laugh").  I once had an A-A professor
who spoke entirely General American except that he consistently
said /m&f/ for "math".

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