Re: USAGE: Permissable /IN/ (was: [i:]=[ij]?)
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 4, 2000, 7:36 |
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Dan Jones wrote:
>/ij/ -> /ej/ is a common change in the Midlands Dialect, especially at the
>end of words: happy /'h&pij/ -> /'&p pej/. Also /aj/ tends toward /oj/: I'm
>happy /ajm 'h&pij/ -> /ojm '&p pej/.
/aj/ > /oj/ or more likely /Aj/, along with /aw/ > /æw/, dissimilations
both, was also a feature, at least up to the 60s, of Eastern US "upper
class" speech, caricatured as "Larchmont lockjaw" or "Main Line
malocclusion".