Re: USAGE: YAEPT: Re: Diversity and uniformity AND No rants! (USAGE: di"f"thong) -- responses to Andreas and Ray.

Hum, yes and the accent of those in Texas are differtent than
those in Alabama, but they are all called southern.

East Texas or west Texas, there is a difference, but heh, grew
up in Oil, so. heard alot of Texas/Lousinna/Arkansas and Okie
accents.

But do not get me near someone from Alabama, cause you will not
be able to understand me when I get done, for a few minutes.

Boomhourer, here I COME!

Mike

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: YAEPT: Re: Diversity and uniformity AND No rants!
(USAGE: di"f"thong) -- responses to Andreas and Ray.


> On 6/2/06, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> > Southeastern dialects (and RP) of English tend to have [A:]
instead of
> > [&] in a variety of odd places, generally before fricatives,
but fairly
> > arbitrarily.  Hence 'grass', 'bath', 'path', 'laugh' are
[grA:s],
> > [bA:T], [pA:T] and [lA:f].  It's inconsistent though, and I
don't know why.
>
> Yup;  have you read JC Wells' book?  Fascinating stuff.
>
> Incidentally, "Southeastern dialects" is a somewhat ambiguous
phrase,
> since the English of the Southeastern US is rather different
from that
> of the Southeastern part of Britain. :)
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>