Re: CHAT: Eng regionalisms (was: German and English)
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 12, 2003, 18:23 |
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From: "michael poxon" <m.poxon@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: CHAT: Eng regionalisms (was: German and English)
> If it's the sound I'm thinking of, is it the diphthong /Vi/ such that some
> people would write "about" as "abight"? If so, that's Ulster Irish as
> notoriously spoken (sorry, shouted) by Ian Paisley. Sorry, can't bring
> myself to call him reverend.
> Mike
Yeah, that's the one. I'm sure half of it was rounded, though.