Nik Taylor wrote:
> > 5. I claim to recognise the audible difference between Mary, marry, and
> > merry, which to my Oregonian roommate is all /meri:/ (here r = American r)
> > and to me is /maeri:/, /mae:ri:/ and /meri:/, respectively.
>
> I say /mIri/
*/mIri/*? Wow! Interesting. Do most people thereabouts say that?
> > 7. Also, ts are frequently replaced by glottal stops, especially in
> > syllable-final position: hi' for hit. si' for sit.
>
> Really? I didn't know that was used outside of England. Interesting.
You mean you don't? Does that mean you just have a deaspirated
/t/ there?
> > The oddest thing is that people in New England also say y'all. That might
> > be because of the influence of the universities ... But y'allses is
> > definitely out.
>
> I'd heard about that. Southerners are taking over! Ha-ha-ha-ha!
Come now: if you're going to laugh diabolically, you have to have something
like: /mwa:?a?a?a:/ 8)
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