Re: CHAT: Eng regionalisms (was: German and English)

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Barry Garcia wrote:

> On an American Design show called "Surprise by Design", they were re-doing
> the room of a kid who was originally from the UK. They didn't say where he
> was from, but his parents had a very interesting accent. All words that
> had /au/ in my dialect (Such as "house"), sounded like /aj/. So whenever
> the mother would say "house" she'd say it something like /hajs:/
Apparently the Queen's English 50 years ago did that, though not so any
more.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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