On Mon, 24 May 1999 17:16:12 -0500 Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
writes:
>> >> But the shifts [T] -> [f] and [D] -> [v] have long since just
>been confind
>> >> to Cockney; it is found generally in colloquial speech throughout
>the whole
>> >> of the greater London area and beyond. It is common in urban
>colloquial
>> >> speech of south-east Wales (where I lived & worked for 22 years)
>and, I
>> >> believe, urban colloquial speech in some other areas.
>> The evidence here would indeed suggest that it is spreading,
>especially
>> among the urban young. Whether it will make it across the Atlantic
>is a
>> different matter :)
Isn't this the same thing as in some Rap music?
The song "I'll be Missin' You" (i think) by Sean "Puffy" Combs has the
phrase:
...[lajf] after [dEf]..._ for "life after death".
-Stephen (Steg)
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