Re: Droppin' D's Revisited
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 16:17 |
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:08:17 -0400, Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
wrote:
>Depends on the region of Spain. Catalan, of course, doesn't have -d
>(ciuta', etc. I don't remember how past ppls are made off hand);
>Andalusian also drops -d (amao, ciuda). Central Spain, of course
>retains it (TiuDaD, amaDo).
I read somewhere that in Madrid a person who pedantically retains
the d's in participles risks being dubbed a 'bacalado de Bilbado' ;)
Basilius