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Re: Not just Cockney,bruv! (was: Revised Eastern Vowel Orthography)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 25, 1999, 2:17
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) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]