John Cowan wrote:
>Keith Alasdair Mylchreest wrote:
>
>> In the English East Midlands we used to say /'s@m@t/ for "something",
where
>> does that come from? "Anything" and "nothing" were usually /owt/ and
/nowt/
>
>"Somewhat", "aught", and "naught" in conventional orthography. This
represents
>the combination of a lexical difference and and a phonological difference.>
Stella Gibbons, in her hilarious novel "Cold Comfort Farm", has the rustics
using these forms. I'm not sure the location of C.C.Farm is specified,
perhaps she was just poking fun at all regional accents.