Re: USAGE: Permissable /IN/ (was: [i:]=[ij]?)
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Monday, November 6, 2000, 23:00 |
Dan Sulani wrote:
> Just out of professional curiosity, Nik, did you mean
>
> 1.) you informally copied the therapist's own dialect
> (which, I take it, was different from the surrounding
> dialect)?
Well, it's actually only a theory, but yeah, number 1 would be the case
if that theory's true. However, that can't be the whole case, because
my mother tells me that her accent was very slight. Maybe I just picked
up some bits and pieces from lots of people from all over.
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