Re: New Englishisms

At 06:15 PM 3/10/99 -0600, you wrote: "Does that mean "often" and "orphan"
rhyme for you?  I guess that would depend on whether you have a nonrhotic
dialect or not."

Seems to me that the orphan in nonrhotic Rhode Island speech has a
different vowel - there is the more open orphan, and the more a-like often.

"Is _youse_ used at all still?  I've always had the feeling that it's one
of those really stigmatized forms that people are quick to shun..."

Not in New England. That's strictly a "you've left NE for New York" thing,
although there is some spillage in Western CT.

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