Re: USAGE: Permissable /IN/ (was: [i:]=[ij]?)
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 4, 2000, 6:37 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
----->In a related note, there's a notice where I work that has "taking"
where
>it should say "taken", which is rather annoying, I think. Apparently
>the reason is that "taken" and "takin'" are homophones in the local
>dialect (/tejkIn/), and so the person who wrote that notice must've
>misanalyzed "taken" as "takin'" and so spelled that as "taking"!>
Favorite example of hypercorrection, from an elderly professor I had--
everyone groaned inwardly when we heard it coming: (Use pseudo Cockney
accent) "Me doctor says I ought to eat more chicking"